“A kiss would kill me, woman,
If beauty were not death…”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Hérodiade.
Hérodiade (1898)
Context: A kiss would kill me, woman,
If beauty were not death...
By what attraction
Am I drawn, what morn forgotten by the prophets
That pours on the dying distance its sad rites?

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French Symbolist poet 1842–1898

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