Quote of Gustave Flaubert - All one's inventions are true, you...
Biography - Gustave Flaubert:
French novelist.
Born: 1821 - Died: 1880
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1821 - Died: 1880
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
See also...
Quotes about science:
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Quotes about poetry:
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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