chrysanthemum

Hollywood

insect

justice

living

November

word

occupation / innovator as

poet

philosopher

playwright

nationality

Belgian

intellectual movement

Symbolism

essayist

translator

scientific organization

Belgium Royal Academy of French language and literature

librettist

innovator in the field of

philosophy

race / ethnicity

Flemings

is the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.

Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.

is alien to the habits, morals and psychology of this world, as if it had come from some other planet, more monstrous, more energetic, more insensate, more atrocious, more infernal than our own.

Something in the insect seems to be alien to the habits, morals and psychology of this world, as if it had come from some other planet, more monstrous, more energetic, more insensate, more atrocious, more infernal than our own.

is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

is the crowning and majestic hours of autumn.

is such that we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words. (Maurice Maeterlinck).

Maurice MaeterlinckThinkers

Maurice Maeterlinck