6 Quotes by Paul Valéry about writing
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What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
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Poems are never finished - just abandoned
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Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
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To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
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There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.
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