More Quotes by Paul Valéry
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.
Poems are never finished - just abandoned.
Love is being stupid together.
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.