Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmontwas a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille. The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect, albeit common and used by Ezra Pound in translations of his work...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 April 1858
CountryFrance
complex reach within
Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
accomplice aesthetic art favorable longer love man puts reception state
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
discover good hidden knowledge practice
Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.
silence pleasure scoundrels
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
men order tree
In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.
education sensibility
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
relationship men rail
Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.
simple language poet
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
educational lying simple
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
two facts elements
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction
hard-work thinking ideas
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time
definitions flour
A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble
smell love-always
The woman who loves always smells good.
mean lust add
Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?