A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. Edmond De Goncourt Next Quote That ephemeral sheet,... the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman. - Edmond De Goncourt Previous Quote If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. - Edmond De Goncourt