“I wanted the Novelist in fact to appear in his really proud position as historian of his own time.”

Defining the novelist as a recorder and interpreter of contemporary history · It Was the Nightingale

• History
• Literature
• Writing

“The dialect was truly endangered, paradoxical though it may sound, only through the annexation.”

Original: Wirklich gefährdet wurde der Dialekt, so paradox es klingen mag, erst durch die Annexion. — Observes the unexpected effects of political rule on the living language of Alsace · Essay on Alsatian language and culture, 1910 (German)

• History
• Identity
• Language

“I have no objection to being called a historical poet.”

Accepting the connection between his verse and the past he inhabited imaginatively · Conversation / critical statement, as commonly attributed

• History
• Memory
• Poetry