Quote

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

Franz Grillparzer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Times
Men
Apex
Excellence
Poet
Poetry
Stand
Wise
Wisdom

More quotes by Franz Grillparzer

Image
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
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.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
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.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
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.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
Franz Grillparzer