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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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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.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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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?
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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