Occupation: Poet Birth: April 4, 1858 Death: September 27, 1915
To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-….
Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end..
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an enti….
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most tr….
Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; comm….
The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first ….
Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last..
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence..
Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn..
Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity..
To know what everyone knows is to know nothing..
Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to con….
In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indif….
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.
God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist..
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it..
And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. I….
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined..
The woman who loves always smells good..
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity..
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has be….