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Franz Grillparzer Quotes Page 2 of 2Franz 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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