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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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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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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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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's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
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What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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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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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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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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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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