Franz Grillparzer Quotes About Poetry
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Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.
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Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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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.
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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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).
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At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.
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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.
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Prose talks and poetry sings.
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