Alphonse de Lamartine
French romantic poet Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine served briefly as minister of foreign affairs in 1848.
This instrumental writer and politician in the foundation of the second Republic and the continuation of the Tricolore as the flag of France.
Les Méditations Poétiques
, a masterpiece in 1820, made his entrance into the field, and he awoke famous. He was made a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1825. He worked for the embassy in Italy from 1825 to 1828. In 1829, he was elected a member of the Académie française. He was elected a deputy in 1833. He in the course of making the journey in royal luxury to the countries lost his only daughter and immediately afterward in 1835 published the "Voyage en Orient", a brilliant and bold account. He then confined to prose.
He published volumes on the most varied subjects (history, criticism, personal confidences, literary conversations) especially during the Empire, when, having retired to private life as the prey of his creditors, he condemned to "literary hard-labor in order to exist and pay his debts". Lamartine ended his life in poverty, publishing monthly installments of the
Cours familier de littérature
for support. He died in Paris in 1869.
Frédéric Mistral published his long Mirèio; the following praise of Alphonse de Lamartine in the fortieth edition of his periodical Cours familier de littérature in part duly caused his fame, and he later won Nobel Prize. People most revere Mistral among writers in modern Occitan literature.
Charles-Julien Lioult de Chênedollé worked on similar innovations at the same time), and Paul Verlaine and the Symbolists acknowledged his important influence.
“Amare per essere amato è umano, ma amare per amare è quasi angelico.”
“Ô temps ! suspends ton vol, et vous, heures propices !Suspendez votre cours :Laissez-nous savourer les rapides délicesDes plus beaux de nos jours !Assez de malheureux ici-bas vous implorent,Coulez, coulez pour eux ;Prenez avec leurs jours les soins qui les dévorent ;Oubliez les heureux.Mais je demande en vain quelques moments encore,Le temps m'échappe et fuit ;Je dis à cette nuit : Sois plus lente ; et l'auroreVa dissiper la nuit.”
“لا تظنوا أن من انقطع شعوره قد شعر حقيقة من قبل، إن لكل امرئ ذاكرتين: ذاكرة الحس وهي تبلى كما يبلى الحس، ويذهب ما فيها ذهاب الأمس؛ وذاكرة النفس، وهذه لا تعهد النسيان ولا تعرف الزمان.”
“J'ai trop vu, trop senti, trop aimé dans ma vie; Je viens chercher vivant le calme du Léthé. Beaux lieux, soyez pour moi ces bords où l'on oublie: L'oubli seul désormais est ma félicité.”
“Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire: that is MUHAMMAD. As regards all the standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask IS THERE ANY MAN GREATER THAN HE?”
“If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?”
“Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.”
“God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world”
“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
“Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds that happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.”
“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated”