If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory. Translation by David Downie — Marguerite Yourcenar
I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography. — Marguerite Yourcenar
I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry. — Marguerite Yourcenar