Well then! Wagner was a revolutionary--he fled the Germans.... As an artist one has no home in Europe outside Paris: the délicate...sse in all five artistic senses that is presupposed by Wagner's art, the fingers for nuances, the psychological morbidity are found only in Paris. Nowhere else is this passion in questions of form to be found, this seriousness in mise en scène--which is Parisian seriousness par excellence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, i...n London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Finally, within a huge and sombre mass of things, A blackened people, living and dying in silence.... (Enfin, dans un amas de choses, sombre, immense, Un peuple noir, vivant et mourant en silence.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at i...ts inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An old French sentence says, "God works in moments,"M"En peu d'heure Dieu labeure." We ask for long life, but 't is deep life, or ...grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to prosperity, you were born to love freedom.... You did not say "en masse," you said "independence." But we cannot have all the luxuries and freedom also.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Despair, feeding, as it always does, on phantasmagoria, is imperturbably leading literature to the rejection, en masse, of all div...ine and social laws, towards practical and theoretical evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »