Stephane Mallarme Quotes

A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Well-written words are music.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Lying and art are very allied. But after you lie, you get to the truth.

As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

A good poem is a contribution to reality.

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.