Stéphane Mallarmé - Poetry Quotes

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The work of pure poetry implies the elocutionary disappearance of the poet, who yields the initiative to words.

Stéphane Mallarmé

Poetry is the expression, in human language restored to its essential rhythm, of the mysterious meaning of the aspects of existence: in this way it confers authenticity on our time on earth and constitutes the only spiritual task there is.

Stéphane Mallarmé

I am inventing a language that 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. … the line of poetry in such a case should be composed not of words, but of intentions, and all the words should fade away before the sensation..

Stéphane Mallarmé