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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
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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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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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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 real genres: good and bad.
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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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Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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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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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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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
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