Franz Grillparzer Quotes - Page 7

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• If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

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  Believe, Errors, Often Is

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Flower, Pride, 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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  Character, Poetry, World

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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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• Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

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  Food, Prose And Poetry, Different

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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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• German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

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  Freedom, Radicalism, Masturbation

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• Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

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  Freedom, Pedants, Pedantry

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• The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Plot

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• As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

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  Art, Appreciate, Understanding

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• What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.

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  Beauty, Assessment, Appreciate

  "A Primer on Environmental Decision-Making: An Integrative Quantitative Approach". Book by Knut Lehre Seip, Fred Wenstop, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 184, 2006.

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• Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

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  Art, Nature, Wine

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• The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

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  Art, Essence, Understanding

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• Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.

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  Wisdom, Princess, Men

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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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  Poetry, Criticism, Tailors

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• A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

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  Music, Art, Laughing

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• No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

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  War, Cutting, Knives

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• Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Uplifting

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• In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

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  Country, Animal, Intelligent

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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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  Art, Order, Poetry

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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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  Life, Art, Perfection

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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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  Healing, Ignorance, Stupidity

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