“Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.” Quote by Honore de Balzac
“Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.” MenFeelsFeelingsActionOrderColorPoetJudgingFormerPostsLatterYieldExesLively Author:Honore de Balzac
“There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.” FeelsKindTwoPoetFormer Author:Honore de Balzac
“Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.” ShowsWindOffersBlowOver ItMarchLeapImmensePolandMobilityPrecipice Author:Honore de Balzac
“At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.” TalentPromiseFifteen Author:Honore de Balzac
“The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.” BelieveLyingHusbandLetting GoPressesFoolishSublime Author:Honore de Balzac
“When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.” EarthAnimalPrideProudSkirts Author:Honore de Balzac
“Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.” MadeTwoStatesSocialNaturalFemaleMalesProtestProstitutionRobberyFemales And Males Author:Honore de Balzac
“A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.” LongHandsMotherLossLeafsPlightFigsPrudes Author:Honore de Balzac