Paul Valery Quotes About Poetry
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
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Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.
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The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
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Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
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A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
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A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.
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If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.
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