Quotation by Stéphane Mallarmé

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898), French Symbolist poet. repr. In Mallarmé: The Poems, ed. and trans. by Keith Bosley (1977). Variations sur un sujet, "Crise de Vers," La Revue Blanche (Paris, September 1895).
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