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Letter to John S. Dwight
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“worte des Wahns”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
WorkFriedrich Schiller
“Die Worte des Wahns”
"Die Worte des Wahns" [The Words of Delusion] (poem, c. 1799; published in Musen-Almanach für das Jahr 1800)
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) · poem, c. 1799; published in Musen-Almanach für das Jahr 1800
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Documented 1837
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- 1837Die Worte des Glaubens; Die Worte des Wahns; Das Spiel des Lebens; HoffnungDemonstrated
“Die Worte des Glaubens"—"worte des Wahns," "Spiel des Lebens" —and "Hoffnung" by Schiller”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 31st May, 1837.
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Journal Fragments
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“faith these words though indeed we hear them most [frequent?] / Im Munde der Guten und Besten / Schallen vergeblich; ihr Klang ist leer / yet indeed they have power, helfen und trosten, / But no man lives up to them; they only serve as cement / to his mental edifice.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Fragments." Houghton Library, Harvard University.