31 Quotes by Paul Claudel

The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.

You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.

The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.

Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing but a participation in and a derivation of actual objects, of the Art of God himself.

While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.

Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy.

Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

Every birth is a getting to know.