Alfred de Vigny
Alfred de Vigny
Alfred Victor, Comte de Vignywas a French poet and early leader of French Romanticism. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare. Unlike many of the French Romantics, Vigny was an army officer with conservative and consistently royalist views...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 March 1797
CountryFrance
truth honesty doubt
Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
country garden air
Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
eye wings fiction
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
age movement exploration
We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
knowing way habit
Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing
girl wife mistress
The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
children hero use
I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words
real civilization details
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
foolish
Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
heart thinking two
We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
mean sacred-things shame
Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?
heart progress analysis
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
drama destiny men
France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
art relation ideals
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.