Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathaywas a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical novel La Confession d'un enfant du siècle...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 December 1810
CountryFrance
kissing unknown-worlds world
With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
glasses originality drink
The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
women blow wind
Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
heart silence mouths
The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.
heart love-is shrines
The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine
cigar feels knows
Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.
heart love-is play
If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart
hands walks knows
I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.
too-late world late
I have come too late into a world too old.
heart voice notes
The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.
love-is soul earth
As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.
teacher pain men
Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
suffering may illusion
Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
letters matter paper
In love matters; keep your pen from paper.