“ Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life. Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
“ I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed. Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
“ There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse. Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
“ If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, nowadays, than dead sounds. They would be, in a word, sounds other than what they actually were, and fr… Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
“ Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds? Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
“ There are even some stars so remote that their light will reach the Earth only when Earth itself is a dead planet, as they themselves are dead, so that the living Earth will never be visited by that f… Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
“ Consider this: when you stand at the entry to a steel factory, you can make out through the smoke some men, some metal, the fires. The furnaces roar, the hammers crash; and the metalworkers who forge… Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
“ Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything? Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
“ Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at the heart of the mystery, a power unimagined before our time. Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
“ I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too? Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
