I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, - through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo. (Friedrich Schiller)

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, - through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.

Friedrich Schiller

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