Quotes about Alfred De Vigny

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from...

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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and...

#Alfred De Vigny

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can...

#Alfred De Vigny

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something...

#Alfred De Vigny

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not...

#Alfred De Vigny

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one...

#Alfred De Vigny

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the...

#Alfred De Vigny

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden...

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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go...

#Alfred De Vigny

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

#Alfred De Vigny

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance...

#Alfred De Vigny

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

#Alfred De Vigny