More From Franz Grillparzer
- "To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet."
- "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."
- "Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it."
More In Poetry
- "On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."― Hu Shih
- "What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man."― Stephen Greenblatt
- "In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change."― John Barton