Paul Valery Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• 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

  War, People, Poetry

  Bizarre, issues 24-31, (p. 102), 1962.

• A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Life, Witty

• Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

  Paul Valery

  Dance, Journey, Hiking

  Talk on BBC Radio, January 13, 1976.

• A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Ideas, Poetry

• The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Poetry, Harmony

• 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.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Poetry, Disappear

• Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Poetry, Fruit

• A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Poetry

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