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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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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Schiller
Goethe
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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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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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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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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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
Franz Grillparzer
The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
Franz Grillparzer
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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