Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes


Passion such as hers is all consent, asking little in return. I had merely to enter a room where she was to see her face take on that peaceful expression of one who is resting in bed. If I touched her, I had the impression that all the blood in her veins was turning to honey.


Citations

Yourcenar, Marguerite. Memoirs of Hadrian. Translated by Grace Frick, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1954.

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Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Born: June 8, 1903
  • Died: December 17, 1987
  • Nationality: French, American
  • Profession: Novelist

Marguerite Yourcenar was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy seat 3.