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Paul Fort was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. At the age of 18, reacting against the Naturalistic theatre, Fort founded the Théâtre d'Art . He also founded and edited the literary reviews Livre d'Art with Alfred Jarry and Vers et Prose with poet Guillaume Apollinaire, which published the work of Paul Valéry and other important Symbolist writers. Fort is notable for his enormous volume of poetry, having published more than thirty volumes of ballads and, according to Amy Lowell for creating the polyphonic prose form in his 'Ballades francaises' . Wikipedia  

✵ 1. February 1872 – 20. April 1960
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Paul Fort Quotes

“Poetry is the vision in a man's soul which he translates as best he can with all the means at his disposal.”

Paul Fort

Preface to Some Imagist Poets, Constable, 1916

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