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
food prose-and-poetry different
Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.
poetry prose
Prose talks and poetry sings.
poetry-and-music tone sound
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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.
character poetry world
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
poetry criticism tailors
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.
poetry poetic poet
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
children philosophical poetry
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
art order poetry
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).
teacher poetry way
The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.
claimed difference mistake mistakes three
Every mistake has three stages: first, it is made, second, it is not admitted, and third, its claimed it didnt make any difference anyway.
converts half oh wisdom
Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.
speed slow-down bits
Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
grieving austria may
They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.