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Paul Valery
(1871 - 1945 / France)

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Paul Valéry, French poet, essayist, and critic was born in Sète, France in 1871. His father, Barthelmy Valéry, was a customs officer at the sea port of Sète, and his mother, Fanny Grassi, who was the daughter of an Italian consul and a descended from Venetian nobility. He was educated in Sette and .. .. more >>

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"A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations."
Paul Valéry (1871-1945), French poet, essayist. "Recollection," Collected Works, vol. 1 (1972).

"Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken."
Paul Valéry (1871-1945), French poet, essayist. Letter to writer André Gide. quoted in Julian Symons, The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe, pt. 1, epilogue (1978).

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Rosemary Rivera (5/26/2005 11:19:00 AM)
can you send me more paul valery poems? I love them. He has a way of looking into the world that i love.

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Paul Valéry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Selected Writings of Paul Valery. New Directions. 1977. Paul Valery: An Anthology. James Lawler, ed. Bollingen (Princeton Univ. Press). 1989. ...
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Valéry Studies - University of Newcastle upon Tyne
This site is devoted to resources and studies on the French poet and thinker Paul Valery.
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Paul Valéry
Paul Valéry was born in Cette (now Sète), the son of a Corsican customs officer, Barthelmy Valéry, and Fanny Grassi, who was the daughter of the Genoese ...
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Paul Valery; A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ... Paul Valery; God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. ...
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