Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzerwas an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 January 1791
CountryAustria
animal needs fool
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
flower pride gold
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.
hands mind slavery
Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
law people different
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
people support prussia
To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.
art age aging
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
future past cradle
The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
gun feet arms
To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
progress recourse
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
ideas age crowded
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
tasks poet theater
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
ocean sailing storm
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
endurance criminals diligence
German diligence is actually endurance.
boys ideas doubt
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.