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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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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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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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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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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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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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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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