“One can think of it as a short tale without context, though
with association, like a dream; a poem which is bare of euphonious and
beautiful words, but also lacking all sense and context, at most some
intelligible stanzas, like fragments from the most varied things. These true
poems can have, at most, an allegorical sense in the whole, and an indirect
effect, like music. That is why nature is so purely poetic, like the parlor of
a magician, of a physicist, ....
“A maerchen is like a dream’s picture without context. An
ensemble of wonderful objects and happenings, for example a musical fantasy,
the harmonic result of an aeolic mode, nature itself. ...
“In a genuine maerchen all must be wonderful, mysterious and
coherent; everything crowded, each from a different path. All of nature must be
wonderfully mixed with all of the spirit world; here enters the time of
anarchy, of lawlessness, freedom, the natural state of nature, the time before
the world ... The world of the maerchen is that which is set up opposite the
world of truth, and thus is like it as chaos is like completed creation.”
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