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. — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell. — 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
