“Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.”

— Jules Verne, book The Survivors of the Chancellor

Les poëtes sont comme les proverbes : l’un est toujours là pour contredire l’autre.
Source: The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875), Ch. 5: An Unusual Route

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French novelist, poet and playwright 1828–1905

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