Gustave Flaubert
  • Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

  • All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

  • All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

  • The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

  • Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.