54 Quotes by Raymond Queneau

He wanted to be content with an identity nicely chopped into pieces of varying lengths, but whose character was always similar, without dyeing it in autumnal colors, drenching it in April showers or mottling it with the instability of clouds.

«El verdadero poeta no se encuentra nunca "inspirado": está precisamente por encima de ese más y de ese menos, iguales a sus ojos, que son la técnica y la inspiración; iguales porque domina ambas a la perfección. El verdadero inspirado nunca está inspirado: lo está siempre; no busca la inspiración ni se irrita contra técnica alguna.»

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.