Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will? — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Happiness is the inner poetry of women, just as fine clothes are the mask of beauty” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
