Stephane Mallarme Quotes

I go to see the shadow you have become.

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

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

It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.

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

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

exiled spirits, red
as the spotless toe of a seraph spread
with scarlet by the shame of rumpled dawns

Dreams have as much influences as actions.

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

The world exists to end up in a book.

All thoughts emit a throw of dice

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

For we are always at one with the instrument of our magic spells.

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

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

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.

A roll of the dice will never abolish chance.

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

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

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

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