Quotes About Yourcenar

It is not that I despise men. If I did I should have no right, and no reason, to try to govern.

This Second Century appeals to me because it was the last century, for a very long period of time, in which men could think and express themselves with full freedom. As for us, we are perhaps already very far from such times as that.

that imperial guard which poets and humanists mount in relay around any great memory.