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. Paul Valery Read Quote
Man’s great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. Paul Valery Read Quote
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. Paul Valery Read Quote
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. Paul Valery Read Quote
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. Paul Valery Read Quote
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. Paul Valery Read Quote
