Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenarwas a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 June 1903
CountryUnited States of America
strong love-is punishment
Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone.
spiritual journey earth
To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.
voice appreciate taught
The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.
thinking destiny insanity
A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.
wisdom faces routine
I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.