Poetry Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends”

“I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.”

“Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contrary, gives men a sort of instinctive distaste for what is ancient. In this respect aristocracy is far more favorable to poetry; for things commonly grow larger and more obscure as they are more remote; and, for this two-fold reason, they are better suited to the delineation of the ideal.”

“She was afraid of heights”

“I don't think all writers are sad, she said.”

“Here dwell together still two men of note”

“We somehow must become what we are not, sacrificing what we are, to inherit the masquerade of what we will be.”

“They call each other ‘E.’ Elvis picks”

“She could feel magic in the quiet spring day, like a sorcerer’s far-off voice, and lines of poetry floated over her mind as if they were strands of spider-web.”