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Paul Valery Quotes
«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
«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