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.
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. - Stephane Mallarme
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
- Stephane Mallarme
To define is to kill. To suggest is to create. - Stephane Mallarme
To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.
A throw of the dice will never abolish chance. - Stephane Mallarme
A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.
Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas. - Stephane Mallarme
Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.
Every soul is a melody which needs renewing. - Stephane Mallarme
Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.
Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery. - Stephane Mallarme
Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.
Dreams have as much influences as actions. - Stephane Mallarme
Dreams have as much influences as actions.
Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them. - Stephane Mallarme
Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.
Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces. - Stephane Mallarme
Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.
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