Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Friedrich Nietzsche

Undated · Bayreuth

Subject

Telegram

Overview

Wagner's telegram on receiving Schopenhauer as Educator, praising it as deep and great, singling out its presentation of Kant, and wishing long shadows to Nietzsche's "three just men."

Letter

Deep and great. Presentation of Kant boldest and most original idea. Verily, only intelligible for those who are possessed. I can picture to myself the three just men. May they cast long shadows in the sun-land of the present. R. W.

Source: The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence, ed. Elizabeth Foerster-Nietzsche, trans. Caroline V. Kerr (Boni and Liveright, 1921), No. 45