A Quote by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
December 23, 1804 - October 13, 1869

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

Stefan Kanfer

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

Charles Baudelaire

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

Christian Morgenstern

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

Augustus

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Augustus

she died.i survived because i survived.i die everyday.

Ravinder Singh

The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.

Michel de Montaigne

Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.

Robert Jordan

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

Gregory David Roberts

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

Mark Nepo

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

Erich Auerbach

Most of those whom we honor on Memorial Day died young. They never had the chance to raise a family, build a career, attend the weddings of their children, or be honored in old age.

Letitia James

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

The three values which men had held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism — as a cultural power — died at the time of the Renaissance. Collectivism — as a political ideal — died in World War II. As to altruism — it has never been alive. It is the poison of death in the blood of Western civilization, and men survived it only to the extent to which they neither believed nor practiced it.