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Franz Grillparzer

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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.


— Franz Grillparzer


#life #moments #beauty

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.


— Franz Grillparzer


#almost #called #even #expert #friend

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.


— Franz Grillparzer


#seem #short #sky #someone #support

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.


— Franz Grillparzer


#genius #lightning #like #resembles #sun

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


— Franz Grillparzer


#brow #candid #disapproval #i #i see

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.


— Franz Grillparzer


#failing #idea #ideas #ignores #itself

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.


— Franz Grillparzer


#different #different people #i #laws #myself

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.


— Franz Grillparzer


#better #character #dares #everyone #expose

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.


— Franz Grillparzer


#day #deeply #ever #every #every day

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.


— Franz Grillparzer


#be thankful #drink #host #important #insignificant






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The poetic influence of Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderón de la Barca is felt. Historical tragedies
For his historical tragedy King Ottokar's Fortune and End (German: König Ottokars Glück und Ende 1823 but owing to difficulties with the censor not performed until February 19 1825) Grillparzer chose the conflict of Otakar II of Bohemia with Rudolph I of Germany. Grillparzer's conceptions are not so clearly defined as Goethe's nor is his diction so varied and harmonious; but the play has the stamp of genius and ranks as one of the best of those works in which an attempt has been made to combine the passion and sentiment of modern life with the simplicity and grace of ancient masterpieces.

Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 – 21 January 1872) was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas.

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