Stephane Mallarme Quotes

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• There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /except for those who live…
• A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.
• Dreams have as much influences as actions.
• You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
• Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.
• The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
• All thoughts emit a throw of dice
• The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
• Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.
• The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we…
• Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.
• In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
• The world exists to end up in a book.
• The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.
• Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.
• A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from Your lips the breath of my…
• To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.
• It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
• Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.
• I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression,…

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