He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George SandButterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
George SandSimplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
George SandI loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.
George Sand