Franz Grillparzer - Prose talks and poetry sin... | Quotesia

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Franz Grillparzer

Franz Grillparzer

Austrian Poet

Born: Jan 15, 1791

Died: Jan 21, 1872

Topics

Poetry, Prose, Talks, Sings

Links

Cite this page: Citation

Related Authors

Emily Dickinson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Khalil Gibran, Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, Sophocles, Walt Whitman

Franz Grillparzer: Selbstbiographie (Eine Österreichische Bibliothek) (German Edition)

Franz Grillparzer: Selbstbiographie (Eine Österreichische Bibliothek) (German Edition)

on Amazon

Buy now

Quotes To Explore

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot

Communicate Before Poetry Genuine Understood

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Robert Frost

Words Thought Poetry Emotion Found

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Edgar Allan Poe

Words Beauty Creation Define Would Poetry Brief

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. Carl Sandburg

Dance Shadow Echo Poetry Asking

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. John F. Kennedy

Power Corrupts Man Arrogance Corrupts Diversity Power Poetry Area Toward Reminds Leads Concern Him Limitations His Existence Richness

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Happiness Poetry Highest Sorrow Deepest

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. T. S. Eliot

Emotions Personality Those Only Poetry Emotion Know Course Loose Escape Want Turning Means Who Expression Things

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. Charles Baudelaire

Music Dance Additional Everything Dancing Hidden Poetry Mysterious Merit Arms Reveal Human Being Legs Being Human Palpable

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. Jhumpa Lahiri

Alienation Borders Crossing Poetry Poets Writers Tension Between Beyond Narratives Always Been Exile Encounters Familiar Beginnings Wandering Literature Epic Theme Epic Poetry Stranger Novels Based Basic Assimilation

More quotes?

Try another of these similiar topics.