Quotes by Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny

An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.

Army

Nations

Vices

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Art

Ideals

Relation

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Eternity

Philosophy

Religion

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

Degrees

Eye

Wings

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

Art

Philosophy

Wall

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

Animal

Desert

Moving

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.

Doubt

Men

Nature

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?

Father

Mother

Two

I love the majesty of human suffering.

Human Suffering

Majesty

Suffering

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.

Heart

Matter

Phrases

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Quotes by Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny

An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

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.

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?

I love the majesty of human suffering.

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.

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