All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

Paul Claudel was elected to the Académie française on 4 April 1946. He rejected traditional metrics in favour of long luxuriant unrhymed lines of free verse the so-called verset claudelien influenced by the Latin psalms of the Vulgate. The British poet W.

He was most famous for his verse dramas which often convey his devout Catholicism.