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
life art shapes
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
women rome bed
Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
real quality criticism
The real genres: good and bad.
sky people shining
The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.
plato loneliness complacency
Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
loneliness excellence property
Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.
hate thinking literature
Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.
food office giving
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.
sarcastic sarcasm shining
Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
women rigidity disgusting
I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
art appreciate understanding
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.
art appreciate judging
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
men thinking feelings
Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.
writing speech abbreviations
Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.