French Poet Quotes

#1. I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#2. A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the 'pieds de Dieu' - the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still - foot odor.

Michael Pollan

#3. I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and, you know, when it was composed and who was the poet and all of that and whether Strauss or Wagner or French Belioz, Duparc or Debussy or whatever.

Jessye Norman

#4. The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

Albert Camus

#5. ...After you have done everything to please a man and he's taken his pleasure with you, all you are for him is a whore, and a whore's daughter.

Pierre Louis

#6. Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

Stephen Sondheim

#7. We live along the shores of night,
At the edge of the eternal sea.

Jack McDevitt

#8. Unless you're like my friend, poet Brooks Haxton (who translates Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, and German), throwing in three-dollar words will just make you look like a dick.

Mary Karr

#9. You must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.

Charles Kettering

#10. It's a dangerous thing to name yourself wrongly or to name yourself unjustly.

John O'Donohue

#11. You have to give respect to get respect.

Lauren Barnholdt

#12. Yes it is better to keep training even if your muscle is still sore.

Serge Nubret

#13. When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

Shia Labeouf

#14. There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

Jacques Rigaut

#15. My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.

Mary Engelbreit

#16. We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is an imperfection in the organization of spiritual life as rudimentary as the communal existence of protozoa in colonies.

Marcel Proust

#17. Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.

Rajneesh

#18. A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

Alfred De Musset

#19. I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#20. Please tell me how the hell was I not going to fall in love with her? Without a doubt, she's the most amazing person I've ever known.

Abi Ketner

#21. What Moses brought down from Mt Siniai were not ten suggestions. They are Commandments

Ted Koppel

#22. A few fires flickered, plumes of dark smoke marring the ruby sky.

Sarah J. Maas