A M. Froment Meurice

Victor Marie Hugo 1802 (Besançon) – 1885 (Paris)



Nous sommes frères : la fleur
Par deux arts peut être faite.
Le poète est ciseleur ;
Le ciseleur est poëte.

Poètes ou ciseleurs,
Par nous l'esprit se révèle.
Nous rendons les bons meilleurs,
Tu rends la beauté plus belle.

Sur son bras ou sur son cou,
Tu fais de tes rêveries,
Statuaire du bijou,
Des palais de pierreries !

Ne dis pas: «Mon art n'est rien...»
Sors de la route tracée,
Ouvrier magicien,
Et mêle à l'or la pensée !

Tous les penseurs, sans chercher
Qui finit ou qui commence,
Sculptent le même rocher :
Ce rocher, c'est l'art immense.

Michel-Ange, grand vieillard,
En larges blocs qu'il nous jette,
Le fait jaillir au hasard ;
Benvenuto nous l'émiette.

Et, devant l'art infini,
Dont jamais la loi ne change,
La miette de Cellini
Vaut le bloc de Michel-Ange.

Tout est grand ; sombre ou vermeil,
Tout feu qui brille est une âme.
L'étoile vaut le soleil ;
L'étincelle vaut la flamme.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABAB CDCX XCEC FGFG ACAC BBBB FEFE DGXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 921
Words 156
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Victor Marie Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831. Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He was buried in the Panthéon. more…

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