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.
real soul world
Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
lying moving use
What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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.
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.
art years political
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
philosophy religion eternity
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
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.
men thinking sight
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
believe character mind
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
people novel
History is a novel for which the people is the author.
dream greatness age
Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
funny sarcastic ideas
The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
fate long tasks
Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.