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
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
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.
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.
brain disease poetry-is
Poetry is the disease of the brain.
silence weakness silence-is
Only silence is great; all else is weakness.
essence heaven despair
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
maturity intention
What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
suffering majesty human-suffering
I love the majesty of human suffering.
stupid order understanding
I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance