The French novelist, Michel Houellebecq, in an interview published in Paris Review, quotes Saint Paul. But then he makes his own version. I'm impressed.
“Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.” For me the sentence would be “Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.”
I may be an American, with a "mexican soul" as some have accused, and with an intractable fascination for things Korean and Japanese, but philosophically I have always been incurably French.