Emile Verhaeren famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.
-- Emile Verhaeren

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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
There are two kinds of men. There are men who are f**king misogynist pigs and then there are men who really love women, who think theyâ€™re the most amazing people in the world. And thatâ€™s me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much.
My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.
On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.
Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
What Iâ€™ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. Youâ€™ve broken it with a word, so I must die.
All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.

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