...But...to sing,
to dream, to smile, to walk, to be alone, be free,
with a voice that stirs and an eye that still can see!
To cock your hat to one side, when you please
at a yes, a no, to fight, or- make poetry!
To work without a thought of fame or fortune,
on that journey, that you dream of, to the moon!
Never to write a line that's not your own...


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That ephemeral sheet,... the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the dec...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes con...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but ...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within ...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad pic...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness fir...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole a...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the tr...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in re...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the ...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that on...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit co...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
a new system of decoration, and . . . a poetic fantasy in the creation of the art object.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it ...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT
I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that o...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT
If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the tr...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT
Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad pic...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but ...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT
Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in re...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT
The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness fir...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes con...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the la...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT