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Stéphane Mallarmé Quotes

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.

The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.

I should point out, creating one's own style, as much as is required to illustrate one of the aspect...

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Mallarmé in Prose

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

The poet Mallarmé listened to the painter Degas complaining about his inability to write poems even ...

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From golden showers of the ancient skies,On the first day, and the eternal snow of stars,You once un...

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There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /excep...

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The world exists to end up in a book.

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

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Stéphane Mallarmé

Poet

Born: 1842-03-18

Died: 1898-09-09

Stéphane Mallarmé (March 18 1842 – September 9 1898), born Étienne Mallarmé, was a poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism.More