Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert
One mustnt ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. – Gustave Flaubert
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert
One mustnt ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. – Gustave Flaubert
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. – Gustave Flaubert