A Quote by Paul Valery

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

Paul Valery

Quote Topics

Impeccable Mistaken Never Only Poe Writer

Quote Author

Paul Valery
French - Poet
October 30, 1871 - July 20, 1945

The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.

Michael Bloomberg

In a way Poe was a big influence for Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. I think he really did influence many artist of the time like Baudelaire, who was a big fan of Poe, and who was the one that brought attention to Poe's work in Europe.

Raul Garcia

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

William Hazlitt

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

Luis Alberto Urrea

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

Robert Breault

I love writing literary stuff. My favorite writer is definitely Edgar Allan Poe - so imaginative and prolific. My second favorite writer would have to be Shakespeare - I love the emotion and human truths he touches on so beautifully.

MC Lars

What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.

Saint Augustine

One thing I incorporated in my novel 'The Poe Shadow' was the little-known fact that documents show Poe inherited a slave and decided to free him.

Matthew Pearl

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

Mordecai Richler

A lot of 'Blackheart' was me, literally in a dark room, confessing my sins; Poe was the influence for that album. But that melancholy has a hopefulness - in every Poe story, there is always a moral at the end.

Dawn Richard

Thank God I am 20 feet tall, so my crying is never mistaken as weak. It can be mistaken as weird, but not weak.

Wendy Williams

For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.

Courtney Love

The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy-the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops

William Saroyan

You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Karl Lagerfeld

I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.