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French poet Paul Valery’s(link is external) 1894 essay “Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci(link is external)” outlines an approach to science and art closely resembling esperienza ...

The French writer Paul Valéry’s way of being a modernist ... and chemists are fundamentally modern types of people whose job it is to work out those laws of the universe which operate ...

and the human dilemmas his work addresses — mortality, embodiment, the longing for perfection — remain with us. The Idea of Perfection: The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry, translated by ...

For a long time nothing about Valéry seemed to me more obvious than his predilection and his genius for the verse poem. To my mind, the intensity, the purity, the uniqueness ofLa Jeune Parque, Le ...

Paul Valéry never had a car, nor a secretary, nor room to work in. He would not permit himself taxis; he enjoyed walking anyway and, until the last, went at a lively gait.

First, there are the established classics, works central to our culture and imagination ... “The Private Library,” was exhaustive and magisterial. Paul Valéry’s “Monsieur Teste” offers ...

By Paul Valéry, translated by Charlotte Mandell. NYRB Classics. 104 pages. We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.

Sometimes something wants to be said, sometimes a way of saying wants to be used. —Paul Valéry, “Poésie et pensée abstraite,” from Modern French Poets on Poetry. ­By the age of 20 ...