Victor Hugo Quotes About Hills
-
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
→ -
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
→ -
In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.
→ -
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
→
Related Authors
-
Jules Verne Novelist -
Juliette Drouet Actress -
Arthur Rimbaud Poet -
Voltaire Writer -
Alexandre Dumas Writer -
Moliere Playwright -
Gustave Flaubert Writer -
Albert Camus Author -
Guy de Maupassant Writer -
Edgar Allan Poe Author -
Charles Dickens Writer -
Emile Zola Writer -
Jean de La Fontaine Poet -
Alphonse de Lamartine Writer -
Paul Verlaine Poet -
Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist -
Charles Baudelaire Poet -
Leo Tolstoy Writer -
Honore de Balzac Novelist -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer
Popular Topics
- Best Love
- Drop Dead Gorgeous
- Hide Love
- Solutions
- Weddings From Movies
- Detective Work
- Hate
- Strong Government
- God's Love
- Failure Inspirational
- Cholera
- Deep Soul
- Men Bashing
- Independent Thinking
- France And England
- Holy Life
- Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself
- If You Truly Love Someone
- Personal Independence
- Buddhism