Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. — Quoted

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“Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.”

Joseph Roux · Poetry

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Joseph Roux

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry

Joseph Roux

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Experience

Joseph Roux

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Friendship

Joseph Roux

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Wisdom