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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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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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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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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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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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Freedom requires guns.
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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
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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 manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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