"Degas was discussing poetry with Mallarmé; "It isn't ideas I'm short of... I've got too many" [Ce ne sont pas les idé…"

"If only I'd chosen an easy work! But, precisely, I, who am sterile and crepuscular, have chosen a terrifying subject,…"

"It is in front of the paper that the artist creates himself."

"Yes, I know, we are merely empty forms of matter, but we are indeed sublime in having invented God and our soul. So s…"

"In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments …"

"Hyperbole! can you not rise In triumph from my memory, A modern magic spell devise As from an ironbound grammary: For…"

"O Spirit of litigation, know, When we keep silent in this season, The stem of multiple lilies grew Too large to be co…"

"Le monde est fait pour aboutir à un beau livre."

"L'acte poétique consiste à voir soudain qu'une idée se fractionne en un nombre de motifs égaux par valeur et à les gr…"

"J'invente une langue qui doit nécessairement jaillir d'une poétique très nouvelle, que je pourrais définir en ces deu…"