Edmond Rostand
Edmond Rostand
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostandwas a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is known best for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. Another of Rostand's works, Les Romanesques, was adapted to the musical comedy, The Fantasticks...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 April 1868
CountryFrance
family sweet heart
Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5.
stakes dies
I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!
love-you pride world
Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.
heart names tongue
Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tongue.
kissing lips letters
And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips.
kissing necks want
Your neck. I want to kiss it.
mother blessed love-you
ROXANE: Live, for I love you! CYRANO: No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast-- But I remain the same, up to the last! ROXANE: I have marred your life--I, I! CYRANO: You blessed my life! Never on me had rested woman's love. My mother even could not find me fair: I had no sister; and, when grown a man, I feared the mistress who would mock at me. But I have had your friendship--grace to you A woman's charm has passed across my path.
facts fantasy turns
Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.
fighting winning men
A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain...
loses
I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love!
inspiring kissing secret
After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise promise, a confession that contains its own proof, a seal placed on a pact that has already been signed; it's a secret told to the mouth rather than to the ear.
kissing promise dots
A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath that's given closer than before; A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that till then were barely breathed; A rosy dot placed on the i in loving.
hero faces danger
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
love i-am-what-i-am please
I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things.