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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
Poet
Poetry
Combines
Child
Profundity
Spirit
Bright
Children
Philosopher
Philosophical
Pictures
Delight

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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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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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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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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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Freedom requires guns.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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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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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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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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