"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…"

"La chair est triste, hélas! et j'ai lu tous les livres."

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

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