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Stephane Mallarme
French poet
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Poetry is an expression, through human language restored to its essential rhythm, of the mysteriousness of existence.
—Stephane Mallarme, French poet, Letter, 1884

Posted on October 30, 1998 at 6:06 PM

WORDS ABOUT WORDS

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
—Stephane Mallarme, Variations sur un sujet

Posted on July 8, 2002 at 6:14 PM

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