Paul Claudel Quotes
In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.
Paul Claudel
Quotes to Explore
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
Ovid
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
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You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
Victor Hugo
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One day he said: For the soul there is a satisfaction of a higher type; the material is not at all necessary. Whether I apply mathematics to a couple of clods of dirt, which we call planets, or to purely arithmetical problems, it s just the same; the latter have only a higher charm for me.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted - nevermore!
Edgar Allan Poe
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All the soul of man is resolution, which in valiant men falters never, until their last breath.
Ian Smith
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.
Alfred Austin
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Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages.
Ellen Key
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Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
James A. Garfield
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I had an Oscar, an Emmy, and yet I had this big hole in my soul.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
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If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art.
Ken Jeong