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…
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A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.
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Dreams have as much influences as actions.
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You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
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Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.
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The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
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All thoughts emit a throw of dice
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The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
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Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.
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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…
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Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.
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In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
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The world exists to end up in a book.
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The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.
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Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.
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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…
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To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.
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It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
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Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.
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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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