[...] Best of friends, what is the point of our preaching to audiences? How sorry I am to see you making such an effort, especially when I myself am the cause of it! There is a dam that must be broken down here, and the means we must use is Revolution! A positive basis must be found; what we ourselves consider good and right must become a firm and immutable reality, so that all that is bad and at present in power shall be transformed, as of itself, to become a stupid and easily vanquishable opposition. A single sensible decision by the King of Prussia with regard to his opera house, and all would be well again!
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Source: Selected Letters of Richard Wagner, trans. and ed. Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington (W. W. Norton & Company, 1988), No. 79