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Pierre de Ronsard : Sonnets pour Helene
'In years away from this when I am quite forgotten, maybe you will turn up some of these old letters & feel a little like saying "Ronsard m'a celebree Du temps que j'etais jeune!" But then i am not Ronsard! I never, indeed, remember to have read anything of R's, except that...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
Pierre Ronsard : Sonnets pour Helene
'With Mademoiselle Fleury that morning I had been struck by some lines in Ronsard's "Sonnets pour Helene", bittersweet, barbed, that drove home a feeling I had recognised and resisted long before, a sense of the intransigent flux of life, unappeasable in the midst of sweetness - intimations of mortality, of transient triumph. I tried out the thought on Bill: "Quand vous serez bien vielle, au soir, a la chandelle, Assise aupres du feu, devidant et filant, Direz, chantant mes vers, en vous emerveillant, Ronsard me celebrait du temps que j'etais belle".'