More Quotes by Paul Valéry
The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
Sometime I think; and sometime I am.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Poems are never finished - just abandoned.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
