More From Andre Gide
- "Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness."
- "It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace."
- "It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."
More In Poetry
- "He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech."― John Colville
- "Superstition is the poetry of life."― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- "The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse."― Robert Morgan