Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him! Franz Grillparzer More Quotes by Franz Grillparzer More Quotes From Franz Grillparzer It is good insofar as it is not evil. Franz Grillparzer evil It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty. Franz Grillparzer coercion matter desire The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician. Franz Grillparzer diplomats excellent politician If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think. Franz Grillparzer intelligence animal thinking The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident. Franz Grillparzer growing learning self In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich. Franz Grillparzer bones fossils world Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness. Franz Grillparzer complacency loneliness plato The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part. Franz Grillparzer understanding essence art Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense. Franz Grillparzer honesty power people Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion. Franz Grillparzer queens power honey Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am. Franz Grillparzer who-i-am land writing Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh. Franz Grillparzer body heart fun A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning. Franz Grillparzer together beautiful book German diligence is actually endurance. Franz Grillparzer diligence endurance criminals North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful. Franz Grillparzer peaceful territory competition In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness. Franz Grillparzer clumsiness art You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist? Franz Grillparzer differences judging doe The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine. Franz Grillparzer plot feelings thinking Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens. Franz Grillparzer rights blow two I cannot be exacting because I respect myself. Franz Grillparzer i-respect-myself self-respect respect
