Paul Valery on writing

July 17, 2006 ~ Tim

“The gods in their graciousness give us an occasional first line for nothing; but it is for us to fashion the second, which must chime with the first and not be unworthy of its supernatural elder.”

-Paul Valery: The Art of Poetry, p.18

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