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
pieces paper firsts
The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds
life dream age
What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
men stories born
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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.
giving judging feelings
Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?
art use imitation
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
memories evil use
Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
analysis human less literature needed social study
The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
silence weakness silence-is
Only silence is great; all else is weakness.
silence weakness silence-is
Only silence is great; all else is weakness.