Born Friday 26 February 1802, died Friday 22 May 1885
Professions: Author, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet, Writer
Nationality: French
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.