One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.
Honore De BalzacRead
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes that true artistry lies in actions and emotions rather than written words.
Honore De Balzac highlights the idea that poetry and artistry are not solely confined to written text but are best expressed through our actions and emotions. This perspective suggests that the essence of creativity and poetic expression can be found in how we live and interact with the world, making our experiences and feelings the true poetry of life.
Themes
PoetActionsFeelingsArtEmotions
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about creativity, this quote could illustrate how one expresses feelings through actions, not just words.
More from Honore De Balzac
All quotes βLoyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
Honore De BalzacRead
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore De BalzacRead
Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?
Honore De BalzacRead
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?
Honore De BalzacRead
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.
Honore De BalzacRead
Similar quotes
The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
Bonnie RaittRead
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this 'ambient music.' But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes.
Brian EnoRead
The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.
Steven SpielbergRead
Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.
Carol ChanningRead
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.
Paul KleeRead
The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in Godβs sight as Rembrandt or anyone else.
Zig ZiglarRead