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. — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne. — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words. — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable. — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them. — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence. — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
Open your eyes! The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk! — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
