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Top 25 Stéphane Mallarmé Quotes (2025 Update)

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.”

1. “To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”

2. “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.”

3. “Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “You don’t make a poem with ideas, but with words.”

4. “You don’t make a poem with ideas, but with words.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”

5. “It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.”

6. “Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “Poets don’t finish poems, they abandon them.”

7. “Poets don’t finish poems, they abandon them.”

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Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.”

8. “A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.”

9. “Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.”

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Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones.”

10. “O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.”

11. “A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.”

12. “Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “All thoughts emit a throw of dice.”

13. “All thoughts emit a throw of dice.”

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Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.”

14. “In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.”

15. “It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “Dreams have as much influences as actions.”

16. “Dreams have as much influences as actions.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.”

17. “The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.”

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Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth.”

18. “The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.”

19. “The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty – and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.”

20. “I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty – and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.”

21. “As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.”

22. “The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “In a museum in London there is an exhibit called “The Value of Man”: a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they’ve put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.”

23. “In a museum in London there is an exhibit called “The Value of Man”: a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they’ve put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.”

24. “Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé Quote: “The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.”

25. “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

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