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.

  • I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

  • Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

  • Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

  • Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.