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Alfred de Vigny

Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet and early leader of French Romanticism. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare. As an army officer with conservative and royalist views, Vigny differed sharply from most other French Romantics.

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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

Art, Limits, Mind, Philosophy, Seen, Wall

I love the majesty of human suffering.

Human, Human Suffering, Majesty, Suffering

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

Lies, Lying, Moving, Theorizing, Use, Wherein

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?

Descend, Feelings, Giving, Judging, Minds, Vague

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance

Admit, Good, Order, Stupid, Stupidly, Understanding

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

Brain, Disease, Poetry, Poetry Is

Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.

Invisible, Real, Soul, Souls, World

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

Idiot, Idiots, Meant, Men, Together

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.

Destiny, Drama, Explores, Loves, Man, Men

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

Men, Punishment, Soldier, Survives, Vestige, War

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

Analysis, Heart, Literature, Progress, Social

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.

Executed, Idea, Ideas, Men, Years, Youthful

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements. 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. These embrace the whole of life. But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Drama, Example, France, Heart, Human, Philosophy

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

Carries, Civilization, Events, Real, Sum, Values

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

Animal, Desert, Herds, Move, Moving, Walks

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Silence, Weakness, Silence Is

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.

Biggest, Foolish, Hope, Things

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

Canvas, Make, Marble, Paper, Pieces, Sound

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

Age, Exploration, Investigation, Live, Movement, Movements

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Art, Imitation, Life, Use

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