Quotes by Alfred de Vigny

About Alfred de Vigny:

Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny was a French poet, playwright, and novelist. He was a major figure in the French Romantic movement.
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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.

Alfred de Vigny

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

Alfred de Vigny

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

Alfred de Vigny

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

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.

Alfred de Vigny

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

Alfred de Vigny

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

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.

Alfred de Vigny

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

Alfred de Vigny

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

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

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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.

Alfred de Vigny

Author Bio

  • NameAlfred de Vigny
  • DescriptionFrench poet, playwright, and novelist
  • AliasesAlfred Victor de Vigny
  • BornMarch 27, 1797
  • DiedSeptember 17, 1863
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionWriter; Playwright; Poet; Novelist