It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. Stephane Mallarme More Quotes by Stephane Mallarme More Quotes From Stephane Mallarme The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books. Stephane Mallarme alasfleshbook Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. Stephane Mallarme stateslanguagepoetry There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul. Stephane Mallarme love-islyingfall 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. Stephane Mallarme watermenmuseums It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself. Stephane Mallarme frontsartistpaper 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. Stephane Mallarme factspeoplefall As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul. Stephane Mallarme selflove-isfall Dreams have as much influence as actions. Stephane Mallarme The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books. Stephane Mallarme readbooksalassad
