Phrase by 'Alfred de Vigny'

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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.

Author: Alfred de Vigny - French Poet
  Man , Truth , Nature , True


I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

Author: Alfred de Vigny - French Poet
  Think , Man , Experience , Facts


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.

Author: Alfred de Vigny - French Poet
  Heart , Human , How , Matter


Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

Author: Alfred de Vigny - French Poet
  History , Art , Political , Result


Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Author: Alfred de Vigny - French Poet


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

Author: Alfred de Vigny - French Poet
  Life , Only , Art , Imitation


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.

Author: Alfred de Vigny - French Poet
  Two , History , Us , Opinion


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.

Author: Alfred de Vigny - French Poet
  World , Man , God , Unity


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

Author: Alfred de Vigny - French Poet
  Live , Age , Exploration , Investigation


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

Author: Alfred de Vigny - French Poet
  Us , Use , Charm , Lies


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