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Something wrong?A French poet who spent twenty years in silence after deciding poetry was futile, then returned to write some of the most intellectually rigorous verse of the twentieth century - and got nominated for the Nobel twelve times without ever winning.
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(23-6-27) P(aul) Valéry (lors de son entrée à l'Académie française) - btv1b531840529
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Paul Valéry - photo Henri Manuel (cropped)
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23-6-27, P(aul) Valéry (lors de son entrée à l'Académie française), J(ules) Cambon (à gauche) - btv1b531840563
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Achille Ouvré - Paul ValéryIn their own words 10
, An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
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Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry was born in France on 30 October 1871. He wrote poetry, essays, drama, and dialogues, but his range stretched wider: aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and the events unfolding around him. Over twelve different years, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature - a recurring recognition that never converted to the prize itself. He died on 20 July 1945, leaving behind a body of work that married the philosopher's rigour to the poet's ear.
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