Top 32 Stephane Mallarme Quotes

#1. The world exists to end up in a book.

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#2. I go to see the shadow you have become.

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

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#4. Dreams have as much influence as actions.

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#5. Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

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#6. I can see my reflection like that of an angel!
And I feel that I am dying, and, through the medium
Of art or of mystical experience, I want to be reborn,
Wearing my dream like a diadem, in some better land
Where beauty flourishes.

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#7. A roll of the dice will never abolish chance.

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#8. Dreams have as much influences as actions.

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#9. O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones.

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#10. Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

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

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

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

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#14. 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 recognize the fact that he paints the truth.

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

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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. exiled spirits, red
as the spotless toe of a seraph spread
with scarlet by the shame of rumpled dawns

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

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#20. 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, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

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#21. 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 name you murmur all night.

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

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#23. Verse is everywhere in language where there is rhythm, everywhere, except in notices and on page four of the papers. In the genre called prose, there are verses [ ... ] of all rhythms. But in truth there is no prose: there is the alphabet, and then verses more or less tight, more or less diffuse.

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

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#25. All thoughts emit a throw of dice

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

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#27. In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.

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

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

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

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#31. You made the sobbing white of lilies too,
tumbling lightly across a sea of sighs on
their dreamy way to weeping moonlight through
the azure incense of the pale horizon!

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#32. Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

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