Anna de Noailles
Anna, Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles (née Anna Elisabeth Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan; 15 November 1876 – 30 April 1933) was a French writer of Romanian, Greek and Bulgarian descent, a poet, and a socialist feminist.
Quotes
[edit]- Prenez-vous, quittez-vous, cherchez-vous tour à tour,
Il n’est rien de réel que le rêve et l’amour.- Take each other, leave each other, seek each other in turn:
Nothing is real but dreams and love. - Le Cœur innombrable (1901) pt. 4, no. 7
- Take each other, leave each other, seek each other in turn:
- On aime
Plus âprement que l'on ne hait!- We women love more bitterly than we hate.
- Poème de l'amour (1924) no. 102
- Astres qui regardez les mondes où nous sommes,
Pure armée au repos dans la hauteur des cieux,
Campement éternel, léger, silencieux,
Que pensez-vous de voir s'anéantir les hommes?- Stars that behold our world upon its way,
Pure legions camped upon the plains of night,
Mute watchful hosts of heaven, what must you say
When men destroy each other in their might? - Nos Morts ('Our Dead') l. 1, as translated by Edith Wharton, The Book of the Homeless (1916) p. 21
- Stars that behold our world upon its way,
External links
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Encyclopedic article on Anna de Noailles on Wikipedia
