More Quotes by Paul Valéry
Poems are never finished - just abandoned.
A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.
The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.