"The ultimate object of yearning is not necessarily at a distance in time and space: distance may be an illusion of the person who yearns. The Romantic suggestion is that longing is not quenched through external effort but through internal maturation. The Romantic initiate learns that, as Tieck once remarked,'Utopia often lies right at our feet'."
-- German Romantics in Context, Roger Cardinal, 1975, p. 33.
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