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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
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Poetry
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Bright
Children
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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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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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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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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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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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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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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
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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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