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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.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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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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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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