Valery Quotes
- Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest… — Stephen Spender
- Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined… — Stanley Kunitz
- When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but… — Bill Bryson