Poetry Quote by Gustave Flaubert — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.”

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”

“Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.”

“I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker’s head if they’re not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it’s bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God’s face when it’s bitter”

“Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.”

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”

“This week”

“Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--”

“The bed we loved in was a spinning world”

“Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.”

“Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.”

“Rocket ships”