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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.

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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
Artist
Walked
Art
Shape
Artfully
Someone
Material
Prometheus
Life
Shapes
Lowly
Materials
Statues
Took
Marble
Knew
Clay
Values
Finest

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