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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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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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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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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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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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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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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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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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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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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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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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