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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
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Goethe
Upward
Moves
Greatness
Moving
Comes
Schiller

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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 office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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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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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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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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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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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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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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