"In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well."
― Paul Valery
Topic(s):
Poetry
More From 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."
- "An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
- "Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature."
More In Poetry
- "I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention."― Kenny Guinn
- "The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can’t touch."― E. M. Forster
- "Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth."― June Jordan