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Franz Grillparzer
January 15, 1791 - January 21, 1872
Nationality: Austrian
Category: Poet
Subcategory: Austrian Poet

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

   

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

   

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.

   

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

   

Prose talks and poetry sings.

   

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

   

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

   

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

   

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