Dreams have as much influence as actions.
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Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.
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A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.
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You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
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The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.
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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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Yes, indeed, I know we are but vain shapes of matter but so sublime as to have invented both God and our own souls.
aphorism by Stephane Mallarme from Letter to Henri Cazalis (28 April 1866), translated by Jean-Michel Maulpoix
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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 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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I am inventing a language which must necessarily burst forth from a very new poetics, that could be defined in a couple of words: Paint,not the thing, but the effect it produces.
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