In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery
Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. – Paul Valery
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery
Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. – Paul Valery
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. – Paul Valery
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. – Ian MacKaye