The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. Alfred de Vigny analysishearthuman Change image and share on social
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. Alfred de Vigny crystallizeeternalexpressive Change image and share on social
We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous. Alfred de Vigny commondiscordfabulous Change image and share on social
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? Alfred de Vigny assumechrysalisdegree Change image and share on social
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. Alfred de Vigny authorcompositiondouble share on social
France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man. Alfred de Vigny destinydramaexplore Change image and share on social
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch. Alfred de Vigny carecharacterepoch Change image and share on social
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete. Alfred de Vigny advancecarecarry share on social
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. Alfred de Vigny actcoherentdoubtless share on social
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever. Alfred de Vigny artborrowhistory Change image and share on social
