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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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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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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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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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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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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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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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