Maeterlinck, Maurice Polydore, Count (also Mauritius Polydorus Maria Bernardus Maeterlinck)

Belgian dramatist, essayist, and poet

wrote plays "The Princess Maleine" 1889, "The Intruder" 1890, "Pelleas and Melisande" 1892, "Joyzelle" 1903, "Mary Magdalene" 1910, libretto "Pelleas et Melisande" 1902

Nobel Prize in Literature 1911

• "An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."
• "All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing."
• "At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."