Depopulated..

 

 

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

• • "L'Isolement", Méditations Poétiques (1820)

• O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days!
  • The Lake (1820), st. 6

• I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
  • The Lake (1820), st. 8

• Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
  • The Lake (1820), st. 9

• Love alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased.
  • The Valley (1820), st. 9

• Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
  • Méditations Poétiques (1820), Sermon 2

•  Alphonse Marie Louise Prat de Lamartine (Alphonse-Marie-Louis de Prat de Lamartine) (October 21, 1790 – February 28, 1869) was a French writer, poet, and politician.