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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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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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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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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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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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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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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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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
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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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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 cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
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