Quote

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

Franz Grillparzer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Thinking
Hair
Tree
Support
Someone
Seems
Trees
Made
Sky
Would
Short
Think
Seem

More quotes by Franz Grillparzer

Image
Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
Franz Grillparzer