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
determined dream good lived men stronger time
Let us dream that once upon a time have lived men stronger and greater, who were more determined for good or for evil; that does us good.
heart phrases matter
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
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.
life dream age
What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
brain disease poetry-is
Poetry is the disease of the brain.
dream greatness age
Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
nature men doubt
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.
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
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?