What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Look upon men and things with the inner eye, with its form and desire, never forgetting that the shadow they throw as… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own:… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.” — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Our lives must be spent seeking our God, for God hides; but His artifices, once they be known, seem so simple and smiling! From… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“The angels that dry our eyes bear the form and the features of all we have said and thought—above all, of what we have… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will always see… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
