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Quotes from Notebooks and Diaries — Franz Grillparzer

1791–1872 Austria

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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

Notebooks and Diaries (1820)

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful tone is silenced.

Notebooks and Diaries (1809)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Franz Grillparzer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.