The poet Mallarm listened to the painter Degas complaining about his inability to write poems even though he was full of ideas. My dear Degas, Mallarm responded, poems are not made out of ideas. Theyre made out of words.
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Stphane Mallarm was a 19th-century French symbolist poet. Étienne Mallarmé, known professionally as Stéphane Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French Symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Read more on Wikipedia →