Franz Grillparzer Quotes - Page 5

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• Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

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  Average, Two, Mind

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• No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

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  Matter, Ridiculous, Ends

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• The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.

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  Teacher, Poetry, Way

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• A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

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  Love, Passion, Men

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• The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

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  Art, Believe, Skills

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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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  Thinking, Gold, May

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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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  House, Stupidity, Acres

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• The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

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  Respect, Squares, Justice

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• Servants honor their master by their service.

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  Honor, Masters, Servant

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• Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

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  Strength, Military, Army

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• The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

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  Ideas, Age, Crowded

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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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  Anger, Together, Examination

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• Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

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  Progress, Recourse

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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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  Food, Giving, Office

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• To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

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  Gun, Feet, Arms

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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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  Marriage, Men, House

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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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  Tasks, Poet, Theater

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• Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

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  Divine Power, Fame, Empty

  "Sappho". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 1 Scene 5, 1818.

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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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  Sound, Poetry And Music, Tone

  "Notebooks and Diaries". Book by Franz Grillparzer, 1820.

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• When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

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  Too Much, Stakes, Insight

  "Libussa". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 1, 1848.

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• From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

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  Uplifting, Distance, Rushing

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• You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

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  Stupid, Silly, Experts

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• Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

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  Mirrors, Looks, Literature

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• At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

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  Men, Fire, Flames

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• In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.

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  World, Fossils, Bones

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