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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
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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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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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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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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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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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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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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The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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