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
courage decision world
Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.
genius recognition crosses
Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.
freedom order air
Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
respect dog power
Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.
love symbolism want
Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
distance flower past
Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.
beautiful integrity genius
Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
stupid silly experts
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
wisdom princess men
Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
courage fear needs
Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
love hate alternatives
Love! Hate! Is there no third?
love friendship flower
Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
art style immaturity
Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
reading hero heart
Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!