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

“Nessuno, mai, riesce a dare l'esatta misura di ciò che pensa, di ciò che soffre, della necessità che lo incalza, e la parola umana è spesso come un pentolino di latta su cui andiamo battendo melodie da far ballare gli orsi mentre vorremmo intenerire le stelle.”

“I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world”

“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”

“I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room”

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

“God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world”

“Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.”

“But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.”

“I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair”

“I love you as the plant that never blooms”

“All that is gold does not glitter,”

“When she left me”