269 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

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

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental – far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind’s foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man’s master is the – public.

Isn’t it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

A woman’s passion is not the measure of a man’s love.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination – it would turn into a masterpiece.

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.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child’s delight in bright pictures.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life’s true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.