Life Quote by Marcel Proust

“The course of a man's destiny can seem sharply altered by a sudden illumination. But illumination is no more than the Spirit's sudden vision…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and solitude of…

— Charlotte Brontë

“There is the gradual path to enlightenment or the direct. The direct you sense during the lifetime, the gradual when time is gone to…

— Lenfantvivant

“Slowly the darkness began to weave its way into my mind, and before long I was hopelessly out of control. I could not follow…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Everyday he saw better, and he began to climb slowly, one by one, almost reluctantly at first then, with intoxication and, as though drawn…

— Victor Hugo

“Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul.”

— Pietros Maneos

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on,…

— Knut Hamsun

“The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to arrive at…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound—the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound of its…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Coming abruptly, and without giving me time to trace it accurately to its source among so many ideas of a very different kind, the…

— Marcel Proust