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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
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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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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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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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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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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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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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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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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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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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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 we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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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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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 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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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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