Poetry Quote by Honoré de Balzac — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.”

“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”

“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?”

“Glory is the sunshine of the dead”

“for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea”

“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”

“I have no heart? Perhaps I have not; / But then you're mad to take offense / That I don't give you what I have not got; / Use your own common sense.”

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

“Poetry, if it has too many layers, should at least lead readers to the openings of the caves the poet built with words and then let them explore on their own! If it does not happen, the travellers might return even without knocking at all!”

“You love too hard,”

“Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,”

“I do not know which to prefer,”