Paul Valery
Paul Valery
Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valérywas a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction, his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events. Valéry was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 12 different years...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 October 1871
CountryFrance
beauty beautiful
Nothing beautiful can be summarized.
past thinking reason
All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.
dream positive-thinking up-early
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
stupid intelligent want
An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.
rights society moments
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.
inspirational life witty
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
order history study
I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.
truth enough gross
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.