Jules Renard
Jules Renard
Pierre-Jules Renard or Jules Renardwas a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de carotteand Les Histoires Naturelles. Among his other works are Le Plaisir de rompreand Huit jours à la campagne...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth22 February 1864
CountryFrance
letters ridiculous poor
The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
solitude world moments
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
horse animal bangs
The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails.
talking mystery existence
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
god names knows
God, he whom everyone knows, by name.
effort may looks
I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.
kindness be-kind ask-me
Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
yield void poet
The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
less life love understand
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
audience audiences born curtain die last night presence rise seen
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, "Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?
goes last moments
There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last