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

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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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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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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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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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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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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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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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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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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