Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Alphonse De Lamartine
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Alphonse De Lamartine
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
Alphonse De Lamartine
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Alphonse De Lamartine
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse De Lamartine
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.