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
events needed
The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
art wall philosophy
Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
moving animal desert
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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.
army vices nations
An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
men ideas years
What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
truth honesty doubt
Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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?
eye wings fiction
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
age movement exploration
We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
knowing way habit
Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing
girl wife mistress
The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
mother father two
Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?
men together coincidence
To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame