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The Wind Rises - Paul Valéry | Premium Poetic Poster

The Wind Rises - Paul Valéry | Premium Poetic Poster

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  • Poster created in France
  • Papier 100% éco-responsable100% eco-friendly paper
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"The wind is rising!... We must try to live!"

Context of the work

This line, one of the most famous in 20th-century French poetry, concludes Paul Valéry's long meditative poem Le Cimetière marin (1920). After meditating on death and immobility facing the Sète sea, the poet suddenly chooses movement and life over sterile contemplation.

What does Valéry's "The wind is rising, we must try to live" mean?

This line concludes Le Cimetière marin (1920): after a long meditation on death facing the sea, Valéry suddenly chooses action and life over contemplative immobility. It has become a universal line of life affirmation.

What size should I choose for this "Le vent se lève" poster?

This "Le vent se lève" poster is available in 30 x 40 cm, 40 x 50 cm, and 50 x 70 cm. The 30 x 40 cm size is suitable for a hallway, office, or gallery wall; the 50 x 70 cm stands alone above a sofa or bed. The frame is not included, the sizes are standard and can be found commercially.

Gift idea for a 20th-century poetry enthusiast, someone embarking on a new beginning, or any admirer of Paul Valéry.

Features and sizes

Available sizes: 30 x 40 cm, 40 x 50 cm, 50 x 70 cm
Paper: 170 gsm uncoated matt, FSC certified
Printing: high resolution, long-lasting colors
Frame: not included
Print medium: poster, art print on matt paper
Theme: quotation, poetry
Average delivery times: 3 working days, careful packaging

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The paper grain, up close.

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Beautiful words deserve beautiful paper

These verses are set to be hung: a chosen typeface, measured margins, white space worked around the text. It is this layout that makes you want to read them again.

The paper is an uncoated matte 170 gsm. Its surface stays slightly fibrous, the ink sinks in, the light spreads across it. You read it the way you read a book.

It is FSC certified, so it comes from sustainably managed forests, and printed as close to you as possible to shorten transport.

Hanging a poem is not the same as reading it once. The text stays there, you catch two lines in passing, and the day pauses for a second. It is a moment you give yourself, and offer to those who live with you.

There is a quiet pleasure in living with French literature in the original. The poem keeps the language it was written in, and with it the sound the writer chose, which no translation quite carries over. On an English-speaking wall it stops being decoration and becomes something with a little cachet: a piece of France you can read on your way past, every morning.

It earns the large format. At 50x70 cm the text is read from across the room, and the page holds a wall the way a painting does.

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