186 Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful – there are far too many children.

Of all our games, love’s play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the only one in which the player has to abandon himself to the body’s ecstasy.

Rien ne m’explique : mes vices et mes vertus n’y suffisent absolument pas ; mon bonheur le fait davantage.

This Second Century appeals to me because it was the last century, for a very long period of time, in which men could think and express themselves with full freedom. As for us, we are perhaps already very far from such times as that.

Sobre todo, no se enamora uno de quien se le parece.

For me, a poet is someone who is ‘in contact.’ Someone through whom a current is passing.