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37 quotes by Paul Valery

Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (/vɑːleɪˈri/; French: [pɔl valeʁi]; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events.
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A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

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Power without abuse loses its charm.

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To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally... →

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Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

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The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

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Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

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History is the science of things which are not repeated.

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

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