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Quote by Franz Grillparzer
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. – Franz Grillparzer

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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses. – Franz Grillparzer

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Knowledge
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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is lifes true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. – Franz Grillparzer

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Poetry
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. – Antonin Artaud

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Its bad poetry executed by people that cant sing. Thats my definition of Rap. – Peter Steele

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Poetry

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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