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French writer 1896–1966Related quotes
William Ernest Henley book Invictus
This may have inspired later lines of "A Challenge" from "Quatrains" by James Benjamin Kenyon, published in An American Anthology, 1787-1900 (1901) edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman:
Arise, O Soul, and gird thee up anew,
Though the black camel Death kneel at thy gate;
No beggar thou that thou for alms shouldst sue:
Be the proud captain still of thine own fate.
Invictus (1875)
“though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
Donna Tartt book The Secret History
Source: The Secret History
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
The Rubaiyat (1120)
“I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term "artist" rather embarrassing.”
M. C. Escher (1898–1972) Dutch graphic artist
1950's, On Being a Graphic Artist', 1953
“I must get back my soul from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (1956-03-01)
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“True, I am young, but for souls nobly born
Valor doesn’t await the passing of years.”
Pierre Corneille book Le Cid
Je suis jeune, il est vrai; mais aux âmes bien nées
La valeur n’attend point le nombre des années.
Don Rodrigue, act II, scene ii.
Le Cid (1636)