Who is Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations". The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. He was a leading member of La Jeune Belgique group and his plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement. In later lif...Read Full Biography of Maurice Maeterlinck
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Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes
- We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
- All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
- At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
- We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
- An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
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