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Death was not a door you could open and close at will.
— Valery G. Olsen
Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.
— Stephen Spender
A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he finds better ones.
— Paul Valery
Taste is made of a thousand distastes
— Paul Valery
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
— Paul Valery
A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.
— Paul Valery
An alone man is always badly accompanied.
— Paul Valery
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.
— Paul Valery
[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
— Paul Valery
Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.
— Paul Valery
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
— Paul Valery
Science is a collection of successful recipes.
— Paul Valery
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
— Paul Valery
No one is intimidated by logic, except logicians.
— Paul Valery
Everything changes but the avant-garde.
— Paul Valery
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.
— Paul Valery
Stupidity is not my strong point.
— Paul Valery
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
— Paul Valery
Sometime I think; and sometime I am.
— Paul Valery
To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.
— Paul Valery