I would hear the song of the columns and visualize in the pure sky the monument of a melody.
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This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest nor serve the power of the mind.
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What soul would hesitate to turn the universe upside down in order to be a little more itself?
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O thoughtful waste of my days! What an artist I have destroyed!
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Stupidity is not my strong point.
Paul ValéryHis heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard him against the truth. He flatters himself that he is entirely alone there.... Patience, dear lady. Perhaps, one day, he will discover some footprint on the sand.... What holy and happy terror, what salutary fright, once he recognizes in that pure sign of grace that his island is mysteriously inhabited!...
Paul ValéryHow can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague?
Paul ValéryThe deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.
Paul ValéryI have made a similar suggestion for poetry: that one should approach it as pure sonority, reading and rereading it as a sort of music, and should not introduce meanings or intentions into the diction before clearly grasping the system of sounds that every poem must offer on pain of nonexistence.
Paul ValéryAs for the world, all reality has no other excuse for existence except to offer the poet the chance to play a sublime match against it -- a match that is list in advance.
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