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Letter "P" » Paul Valery Quotes
«God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.»
«In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well»
«The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds»
«A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas»
«Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.»
«A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.»
Author: Paul Valery
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
completed, deliver, in relation to, relation to, transformations, weariness
«God made everything out of the void, but the void shows through»
«That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.»
«The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect»
«To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts»
Author: Paul Valery
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Poetry,
Writing
| Keywords:
infinite number, Verses
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