Théodore de Banville

Théodore Faullain de Banville (14 March 1823 – 13 March 1891) was a French poet and writer. His work was influential on the Symbolist movement in French literature in the late 19th century.

Quotes

• Jeune homme sans mèlancolie,
  Blond comme un soleil d’Italie,
  Garde bien ta belle folie.
  • Young man, without melancholy, blond as the sun in Italy, cherish your fine folly.
  • «À Adolphe Gaïffe», in Odelettes, 2nd ed. (1856), p. 32
  • Tr. P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster: A Life (London: Abacus, 1993), p. 159

• Nous n'irons plus aux bois, les lauriers sont coupés.
  • We go to the woods no more, the laurels are cut down.
  • [Untitled], in Les Cariatides, new ed. (1864), p. 209
  • Tr. Eli Siegel, Hail, American Development (New York: Definition Press, 1968), p. 90

• Licences poètiques. Il n’y en a pas.
  • Petit traitè de poèsie française (1872), ch. 4