Stéphane Mallarmé Quotes

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

~ Stéphane Mallarmé

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

~ Stéphane Mallarmé

The world exists to end up in a book.

~ Stéphane Mallarmé

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

~ Stéphane Mallarmé

I should point out, creating one's own style, as much as is required to illustrate one of the aspects, the golden seam of language, involves beginning again at once, in a different manner, adopting the guise of a pupil when one risked becoming pedantic - thus by a shrugging of one's shoulders, disconcerting some with their genuflecting stance, and immortalizing oneself in multiple, impersonal, or even anonymous forms in response to the gesture of arms raised in stupefaction.

~ Stéphane Mallarmé

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

~ Stéphane Mallarmé

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

~ Stéphane Mallarmé