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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
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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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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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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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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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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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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Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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