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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
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Delight
Poet
Poetry
Combines
Child
Profundity
Spirit
Bright
Children
Philosopher
Philosophical
Pictures

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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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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.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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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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Servants honor their master by their service.
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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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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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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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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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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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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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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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