Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
Franz Grillparzer
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Person
Raises
Great
Entire
World
Poet
Poetry
Else
Also
Character
Persons
More quotes by Franz Grillparzer
When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
Franz Grillparzer
If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
Franz Grillparzer
Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
Franz Grillparzer
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
Franz Grillparzer
Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
Franz Grillparzer
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
Franz Grillparzer
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
Franz Grillparzer
Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
Franz Grillparzer
What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
Franz Grillparzer
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
Franz Grillparzer
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
Franz Grillparzer
Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
Franz Grillparzer
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
Franz Grillparzer
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
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.
Franz Grillparzer
Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
Franz Grillparzer
The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
Franz Grillparzer
Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
Franz Grillparzer
The real genres: good and bad.
Franz Grillparzer
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
Franz Grillparzer
