About Maurice Maeterlinck:
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was a Fleming, but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations". The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. His plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement.
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
Maurice MaeterlinckAll our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice MaeterlinckOur reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
Maurice Maeterlinck