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
Paul Valery quotes about
psychics ironic empowerment
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
reign doe conscience
Conscience reigns but it does not govern.
motive settlement treaties
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
passion tension
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
abandoned finished
Poems are never finished - just abandoned
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.
science
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
mistaken impeccable
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
honesty simple useless
What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
avant-garde things-change
Everything changes but the avant-garde.
advice traps bounds
Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap.
numbers soul use
It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.
fate mind these-days
It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary and not only necessary but urgent to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate.
simple hands water
Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.