"Art is eternally young, but the poet ages.……" — Franz Grillparzer

"Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!"

— Franz Grillparzer

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45 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

Franz Grillparzer has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an…
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble…
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those…
No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you…
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid…
If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be…
Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to…
No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

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More Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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