4 Quotes & Sayings By Heinrich Von Kleist

Heinrich von Kleist (1477 - 1523) was a German playwright, poet and dramatist. He is considered one of the most important playwrights of the German Baroque era and is best known today for his play, The Princes (Der Prinz von Homburg), which he began writing in 1508 and which was published posthumously in 1521. Kleist's drama is set in Italy during the time of Pope Alexander VI (1431-1503), and revolves around the theme of incest. It has been described as "Feuerbach's Folly" by Georg Lukács.

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We see that in the organic world, to the same degree that reflection gets darker and weaker, grace grows ever more radiant and dominant. But just as two lines intersect on one side of a point, and after passing through infinity, suddenly come together again on the other side; or the image in a concave mirror suddenly reappears before us after drawing away into the infinite distance, so too, does grace return once perception, as it were, has traversed the infinite--such that it simultaneously appears the purest in human bodily structures that are either devoid of consciousness or which possess an infinite consciousness, such as in the jointed manikin or the god. Heinrich Von Kleist
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In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself. Heinrich Von Kleist
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The kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded Heinrich Von Kleist