“He got carried away as he developed his idea: 'The aesthetic quality of towns is essential. If, as has been said, every… — Georges Rodenbach E-t-a-hoffmann Copy Share Image
“Besides that, his secret - and principal - reason for retiring was to devote himself entirely to his idée fixe, his collection… — Georges Rodenbach Clock Copy Share Image
“Bruges had the air of a ghost town. The high towers, the trees along the canals withdrew, absorbed by the same muslin:… — Georges Rodenbach Autumn Copy Share Image
“It was van Hulle who had been the initiator of this restoration of their ancestral language to its former glory as a… — Georges Rodenbach Flanders Copy Share Image
“The crowd listened all the more closely for having waited and despaired, especially since this time the bells, ringing softly, demanded a… — Georges Rodenbach Christmas-carols Copy Share Image
“Wilhelmine chatted on, chatted as if emboldened by the gathering dusk. She wasn't afraid any more. She didn't blush any more. And… — Georges Rodenbach Dark Copy Share Image
“The windows let in a perfect light, a vibrant light such as you get in the north, where a kind of grey… — Georges Rodenbach Light Copy Share Image
“Oh the joy of an idée fixe! The contentment of a life taken up some ideal, any ideal! A gentle trap to… — Georges Rodenbach Children Copy Share Image
“They needed to take action, make haste, embalm the dead town, dress the wounds of the sculptures, heal the sick windows, give… — Georges Rodenbach Architecture Copy Share Image
“Nothing goes unobserved in that strict town where people lack occupation. Malicious curiosity there has even invented what is known as a… — Georges Rodenbach Gossip Copy Share Image
“Then he returned to his theme: 'If so many lovers feel the desire to die and more and more die each day,… — Georges Rodenbach Death Copy Share Image
“He mostly preached in the evening, when the college church was already shrouded in shadow. And he chose subjects that filled the… — Georges Rodenbach Fear Copy Share Image
“The carillon is, after all, the music of the people. Elsewhere, in the glittering capitals, public festivals are celebrated with fireworks, that… — Georges Rodenbach Bells Copy Share Image
“Oh, the joy of the arrival of a child, which is both the one and the other, a mirror in which husband… — Georges Rodenbach Child Copy Share Image
“They sensed that nothing needed to be said. In silence, minds understand each other.” — Georges Rodenbach Psychology Copy Share Image
“It could be said that Borluut was in love with the town. But we only have one heart for all our loves,… — Georges Rodenbach Architecture Copy Share Image
“Thus the tower was both disease and cure. It rendered him unfit for the world and it remedied the hurts inflicted by… — Georges Rodenbach Isolation Copy Share Image
“Was that not the way it ought to be? The beauty of Bruges lay in being dead. From the top of the… — Georges Rodenbach Beauty Copy Share Image
“Soon the air of the high place was blowing in through the gaps in the masonry, the open bays, where the wind… — Georges Rodenbach Abyss Copy Share Image
“...without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist… — Georges Rodenbach Kiss Copy Share Image
“Oh, the vanity of plans! Our lives proceed regardless. All the things we work out in such minute detail slip away from… — Georges Rodenbach Change Copy Share Image
“Yes, it was the love of woman that was the danger, the obstacle on which her dearest wish might founder. How it… — Georges Rodenbach Love Copy Share Image
The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent,… — Georges Rodenbach Absent Copy Share Image
