Franz Grillparzer

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

"Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail."

"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."

"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."

"Prose talks and poetry sings."

"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."