Alfred de Vigny Quotes

Alfred de Vigny
Alfred de Vigny
French Poet
Born: Mar 27, 1797
Died: Sep 17, 1863
Art Cares History Human Heart Life Man
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. Alfred de Vigny
Art Beauty Ought Relations Considered Except Never Ideal
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? Alfred de Vigny
You Eyes Own Assume Chrysalis Degrees See Wings Fact Fiction Your
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? Alfred de Vigny
Judge Thought Feeling Birth Our Minds Ourselves Gives Weigh Also Always Just Cloudy Which Forms Descend Actions Search Vague
We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous. Alfred de Vigny
Love Needs Think Our Find Fabulous Seem Variance Shall Troubled True Merge Discord Source Hearts Common Where Which Reigns Two
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? Alfred de Vigny
You Gardening Garden Country Our Air France Has-Been Purest Charming Part Do You Know Know Spot Been Heaven Where Which Plains Streams Wide Watered
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever. Alfred de Vigny
Art History Result Political Changes Late Our Borrowed More Perhaps Years Than Ever
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. Alfred de Vigny
History Reckon Composition Having Fact Almost Thus Undergone Opinion Mathematically Hand Author Stages Public Might Double Us Separated Public Opinion Original Two Third
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch. Alfred de Vigny
Character Mind Believe Cares General Only True Human Epoch Human Mind
The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. Alfred de Vigny
Today Heart Progress Human Heart Analysis Study Than Human Literature Social Less Social Progress Needed

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