French Poetry Quotes:

Love is the poetry of the senses.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Love, Valentines Day, Love Is, Sweet Valentine, Sweet Valentines Day

Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'.

- Marco Rubio

source: "Marco Rubio's 'American Dreams': 10 key quotes" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. January 09, 2015.

topic: Groundhog Day, Degrees, Bills, French Poetry, Groundhogs

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

- Paul Auster

topic: Breathing, Paris, America, French Poetry, Expatriates

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

- Paul Auster

topic: Tables, Pay, Way, French Poetry

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

- Joseph Gordon-Levitt

topic: Acting, Literature, Columbia, French Literature, French Poetry

I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!

- Israel Zangwill

topic: Hate, Poetry, Glitter, French Poetry

German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.

- Paul Celan

source: Paul Celan, Rosemarie Waldrop (2003). “Collected Prose”, p.15, Psychology Press

topic: Beauty, Truth, Poetry, French Poetry