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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
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Vienna
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Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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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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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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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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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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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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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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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.
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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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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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