"Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children."

“My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.”
Alphonse Daudet

Source : Alphonse Daudet (2018). “In the Land of Pain”, p.17, Random House

“Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.”
Alphonse Daudet

Source : "The art of suffering" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2002.

“The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation...”
Alphonse Daudet

Source : "The art of suffering" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2002.

“If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.”
Alphonse Daudet

“To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.”
Alphonse Daudet

Source : Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”