A Poetics (85-86)
85. Reference (# 77)
«Ce sont les mots mêmes que le Bourgeois lit tous les matins, les mêmes! Mais voilà: s'il lui arrive de les retrouver en tel mien poème, il ne les comprend plus.»
—Stéphane Mallarmé
86. Pleasure
To succeed, a poem must provide pleasure. Pleasure comes in many forms, but always through the mind. The poem must please the reader, but the only reader that must matter to the poet is the poet. The poet's mantra: "I please myself. I pleasure myself."
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«Ce sont les mots mêmes que le Bourgeois lit tous les matins, les mêmes! Mais voilà: s'il lui arrive de les retrouver en tel mien poème, il ne les comprend plus.»
—Stéphane Mallarmé
86. Pleasure
To succeed, a poem must provide pleasure. Pleasure comes in many forms, but always through the mind. The poem must please the reader, but the only reader that must matter to the poet is the poet. The poet's mantra: "I please myself. I pleasure myself."
ecr. l'inf.
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