Quotes By Author: Paul Valery

“What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.”

“Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.”

“Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.”

“Poems are never finished – just abandoned”

“God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.”

“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly”

“Politeness is organized indifference.”