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.
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.
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.
men ideas years
What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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
drama destiny men
France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
war men soldier
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
men stories born
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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?
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.