Gourmont

Famous quotes containing the word gourmont:

    The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe.... A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
    —Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)

    To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes—countrysides and figures, movements and gestures—how could he have a style, that is originality?
    —Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)

    If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be—not understood, but divined.
    —Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)