Quotes by Mallarme, Stephane

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

There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- poet >>

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who ha >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a suspension of b >>

A poet can survive anything but a misprint. >>

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. >>

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

Mallarme, Stephane