Paul Valéry

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born

Sète, France

died

July 20, 1945

gender

male

genre

Poetry, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction

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Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a polymath. In addition to his fiction (poetry, drama and dialogues), he also wrote many essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events.

Valéry is best known as a poet, and is sometimes considered to be the last of the French Symbolists. But he published fewer than a hundred poems, and none that drew much attention. On the night of 4 October 1892, during a heavy storm, Paul Valéry entered an existential crisis, which made a big impact on his writing career. Around 1898, his writing activity even came to a near-standstill, due partly to the death of his mentor Stéphane...more

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Average rating: 4.13 · 510 ratings · 36 reviews · 92 distinct works

	Selected Writings 4.27 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1964	My rating:
	Monsieur Teste 4.00 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1919 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Art of Poetry 4.42 avg rating — 40 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	An Anthology by Paul Valéry, James R. Lawler (Editor), Jackson Mathews (Editor) 4.10 avg rating — 30 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Dialogues by Paul Valéry, Jackson Mathews (Editor), W.M. Stewart (Translator) 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1956 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Sea Shells by Paul Valéry, Henri Mondor (Illustrator), Ralph Manheim (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	La Jeune Parque by Paul Valéry, Alistair Elliot 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1953 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Poésies 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings	My rating:
	Collected Works of Paul Valery: Degas, Manet, Morisot 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	El Cementerio Marino / The Marine Cemetery (Literatura / Literature) 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1922 — 9 editions	My rating:

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“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”
― Paul Valéry

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“the best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up”
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“Politeness is organized indifference.”
― Paul Valéry

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