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
mistaken impeccable
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
truth years long
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
science
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
art men ideas
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.
truth honesty spring
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
mean successful science
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
order two world
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
reality dancer hybridity
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
abuse charm loses
Power without abuse loses its charm.
may absurd
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
writing numbers unexpected
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.
thinking
Sometime I think; and sometime I am.
cognition doe reign
Cognition reigns but does not rule.
important emotion
Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.