Franz Grillparzer Inspirational Quotes (125)

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.