Henri Barbusse on Valentine's Day
1873–1935 France
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I believe in a lofty form of poetry, in the work in which beauty will be mingled with beliefs.
The Inferno (1917)
You can form no idea of the beauty that is possible!
Light (1919)
She, perhaps, was the one I should have always loved; she whom I seek gropingly, desperately, from each to the next.
Light (1919)
Once, after we had recalled to each other an enchanted summer evening, I said, "We loved each other," and she answered, "I remember."
Light (1919)
I take her hand, as I did before. I speak to her, rather timidly and at random: "Carnal love isn't the whole of love."
"It's love!" Marie answers.
Light (1919)
She is one with me. Love — it comes back to me. Love is an unhappy man and unhappy woman.
I awake — uttering the feeble cry of the babe new-born.
Light (1919)