“It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat — as is the case with the better artists. But it does not seem right that they stop with the historical themes already given and, so to speak, think that only these are suitable for poetic treatment… Why are modern heroes and the like not just as poetic?”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers
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