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
character poetry world
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
horse brave soldier
Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
mind may invisible
The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
feet imagination body
Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
life art accomplishment
How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
country intelligent thinking
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.
doe goodness good-things
The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
life time moving
I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
life death men
Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
history historical attention
Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
rights two bent
Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.
stupidity house acres
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.
mind piety fermentation
Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
drama character degrees
It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.