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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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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Delight
Poet
Poetry
Combines
Child
Profundity
Spirit
Bright
Children
Philosopher
Philosophical
Pictures

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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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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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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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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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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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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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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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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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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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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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Freedom requires guns.
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