Paul Valery Quotes About Difficulty

Quotes about: Difficulty

• A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

  Paul Valery

  Light, Mindfulness, Sun

• You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.

  Paul Valery

  Giving, Effort, Everyday

• 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

  Art, Men, Ideas

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