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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Francis Ponge

Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge was a French essayist and poet. Influenced by surrealism, he developed a form of prose poem, minutely examining everyday objects. He was the third recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1974.

French - Essayist | March 27, 1899 - August 6, 1988

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For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances. — © Francis Ponge

For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.

Francis Ponge

Francis Ponge

Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable.

Francis Ponge

Francis Ponge

History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.

Francis Ponge

Francis Ponge

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