When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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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
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.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
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No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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