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. — 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
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
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
You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable. — Paul Claudel Copy Share
It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them. — Paul Claudel Copy Share
Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence. — Paul Claudel Copy Share
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
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
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
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
