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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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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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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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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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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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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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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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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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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