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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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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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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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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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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.
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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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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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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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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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