Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.
Franz GrillparzerI look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
Franz GrillparzerThe plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.
Franz Grillparzer