"You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable."

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Source : Recalled on his death, 23 Feb 1955.

Paul Claudel

#Thanks Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Living your best life is your most important journey in life.”
“The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? â€” how far? â€” how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern.”
“It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.”
“I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.”
“Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.”
“As the world is getting smaller, it becomes more and more important that we learn each other's dance moves, that we meet each other, we get to know each other, we are able to figure out a way to cross borders, to understand each other, to understand people's hopes and dreams, what makes them laugh and cry.”
“The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.”
“Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.”

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