Quotes from Paul Claudel

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.

How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods