Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneauwas a French novelist, poet, and co-founder of Oulipo, notable for his wit and cynical humour...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 February 1903
CountryFrance
breath caught embraced love numbers prime
When One made love to Zero, spheres embraced their arches and prime numbers caught their breath
giving historical importance individual
We think of giving importance to history, but it is the individual who is interesting, and we want to give him a historical importance.
author seems
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
perhaps
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
extremely mentioned surprised technical
In the Odyssey, there are technical refinements which are extremely remarkable, and I'm surprised they aren't mentioned more often.
rehabilitation iliad creation
A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
fiction odyssey iliad
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
epic singing identity
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
fall inspiration waiting
The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration to fall out of the heavens like roasted ortolans. He knows how to hunt...He is never inspired because he is unceasingly inspired, because the powers of poetry are always at his disposition, subjected to his will, submissive to his own activity...
stories hunger true-story
True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.
wisdom culture study
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
odyssey confession
All confessions are Odysseys.
historical
All societies are historical.
education ideas knowledge-learning
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.