Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Death lurks in the farewell of a true friend.

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (20 June 1786 – 23 July 1859) was a French poet.

Quotes

• La mort est dans l'adieu d'un ami veritable.
  • Translation: Death lurks in the farewell of a true friend.
  • Elégies (1830), Au Sommeil; translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 110.