[...] My wife, who considers it necessary to continue to live among the dregs of vulgar society in Dresden, has reported a thousand repugnant things which make me appear far more compromised by the uprising in the eyes of those pitiful wretches than is in fact the case: their mood towards me is now presumably widespread, and the Weimar Court will itself not have been untouched by it. And so I can imagine that you, too, would not now deem it appropriate to speak out on my behalf at a Court which, in its natural confusion, sees in me first and foremost only a political revolutionary, and in doing so forgets the artistic revolutionary whom it had basically come to like.
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Source: Selected Letters of Richard Wagner, trans. and ed. Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington (W. W. Norton & Company, 1988), No. 92