Stéphane Mallarmé: Doing

Stéphane Mallarmé was French Symbolist poet. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

Stéphane Mallarmé: 72 quotes 7 likes

“I wait, but do not know for what or why
Or perhaps you are uttering the last bruised sighs,
Ignorant of the mystery and of your cries,
Of a childhood feeling its frozen gems
Being broken off at last amidst its dreams.”

Stéphane Mallarmé

Hérodiade.
Hérodiade (1898)

Waiting

“Away with those perfumes that do me harm!
I hate them, nurse, and would you have me feel
Their drunken vapors make my senses reel?”

Stéphane Mallarmé

Hérodiade.
Hérodiade (1898)

Hate , Feeling , Sense

“We do not write poems with ideas, but with words.”

Stéphane Mallarmé

Ce n'est pas avec des idées qu'on fait des vers, c'est avec des mots.
A remark reported in Psychologie de l'art (1927) by Henri Delacroix, p. 93; as translated in Literary Impressionism (1973), Maria Elisabeth Kronegger, p. 77.
Observations

Idea

“How, save through obscure
Terrors, imagine more implacable still
And as a suppliant the god who some day will
Receive the gift of your grace! and for whom,
Devoured by anguish, do you keep the unknown
Splendor and mystery of your being?”

Stéphane Mallarmé

Nurse.
Hérodiade (1898)

God , Imagination