There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. – Victor Hugo
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. – Victor Hugo
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. – Victor Hugo
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. – Victor Hugo