Franz Grillparzer Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Mirrors, Looks, Literature

• Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

  Franz Grillparzer

  People, Religion, Church

• Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Hate, Thinking, Principles

• The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Food, Giving, Office

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