Stephane Mallarme
Stephane Mallarme
Stéphane Mallarmé; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 March 1842
CountryFrance
dream action influence
Dreams have as much influences as actions.
dream lying soul
Yes, I know, we are merely empty forms of matter, but we are indeed sublime in having invented God and our soul. So sublime, my friend, that I want to gaze upon matter, fully conscious that it exists, and yet launching itself madly into Dream, despite its knowledge that Dream has no existence, extolling the Soul and all the divine impressions of that kind which have collected within us from the beginning of time and proclaiming, in the face of the Void which is truth, these glorious lies!
book world ends
The world exists to end up in a book.
jobs reality creating
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.