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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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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!
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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