“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
-Paul Valery
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”
-Paul Valery
“At times I think and at times I am.”
-Paul Valery
“Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.”
-Paul Valery
“A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.”
-Paul Valery
“A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps
the inner madman under lock and key.”
-Paul Valery
“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.”
-Paul Valery
“God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.”
-Paul Valery
“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.”
-Paul Valery