Maurice Maeterlinck (Author of The Blue Bird)

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Maurice Maeterlinck

Born

in Ghent, Belgium

August 29, 1862

Died

May 06, 1949

Genre

Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction

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Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (also called Count Maeterlinck from 1932) was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was a Fleming, but wrote in French.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations".

The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. His plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement. ...more

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	The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts 3.82 avg rating — 2,152 ratings — published 1905 — 522 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck, Alfred Sutro (Translator), Edwin Way Teale (Introduction) 3.89 avg rating — 989 ratings — published 1901 — 139 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Intelligence of Flowers by Maurice Maeterlinck, Philip Mosley (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 889 ratings — published 1907 — 179 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pelleas And Melisande 3.42 avg rating — 759 ratings — published 1892 — 231 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les aveugles (L'intruse. Les aveugles) 3.80 avg rating — 675 ratings — published 1890 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Intruder 3.66 avg rating — 398 ratings — published 1890 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La vida de las hormigas 3.62 avg rating — 335 ratings — published 1930 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Interior by Maurice Maeterlinck, Francis Booth (老虎机稳赢方法 Author) (Translator) 3.63 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 1895 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death 3.91 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1911 — 120 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Treasure of the Humble 3.75 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1896 — 164 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck (?)

“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee

tags: bees, ecology, environment, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased, science

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“When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck

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“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck

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