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
fate long tasks
Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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.
heart long silence
Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.
girl wife mistress
The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
eye wings fiction
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
army vices nations
An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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?
heart progress analysis
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
truth honesty doubt
Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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.
foolish
Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
eye men race
The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
events needed
The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
hands two public-opinion
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.