To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet. -Eugene Delacroix

 

To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet.


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This quote is just one of 10 total Eugene Delacroix quotes in our collection. Eugene Delacroix is known for saying 'To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Eugene Delacroix

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Eugene Delacroix

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Eugene Delacroix

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

Eugene Delacroix

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

Eugene Delacroix