It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
Stephane MallarmeRead
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
Interpretation
The poet becomes a vessel for their words, allowing the language to take center stage.
In this quote, Stéphane Mallarmé suggests that true artistry occurs when the poet steps aside, allowing their words to speak for themselves. This disappearance of the poet as a speaker emphasizes the importance of the language and the reader's interpretation, creating a space where poetry transcends the author and becomes an independent entity.
In practice
This quote could be used in a poetry workshop to encourage writers to focus on the power of their words.
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
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.
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
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.
Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.
The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed
... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.
For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself.
When you first start out in stand-up and, probably, as any performer, you enjoy the attention so much, and even though that hasn't died down on stage, it certainly has satiated whatever was in me that was needing that much attention. When I'm off stage, it's not something that I really need.
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