Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: March 10, 1772
- Died: January 12, 1829
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