Alphonse de Lamartine

"The first romantics were seers without even really realizing it: their soul’s education began by accident: abandoned trains still smoking, occasionally taking to the tracks. Lamartine was a seer now a…"

"The very eagle, destined to soar so high and to see so far, begins his life in the fissures of the rocks, and in his early days only sees the arid and sometimes fetid borders of his eyry."

"Until the age of twelve, then, I only lived on bread, milk-food, vegetables, and fruit. My health was not less robust on this account, nor my growth less rapid, and it was to this diet, perhaps, that …"

"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic."

"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."

"Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time."

"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."

"Silence is the winding-sheet of the past: it is sometimes impious, often dangerous to raise it. But even when it is raised piously and lovingly, the first moment is a cruel one."