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Quotes from The Afternoon of a Faun — Stéphane Mallarmé

1842–1898 France

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The visible serene artificial breath
Of inspiration, which regains the sky.

The Afternoon of a Faun (1876)

All alone I gave
Myself for triumph the ideal sin of roses.

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My breast, though proofless, still attests a bite
Mysterious, due to some august tooth;
But enough! for confidant such mystery chose
The great double reed which one plays 'neath the blue.

The Afternoon of a Faun (1876)

Etna! 'tis amid you, visited by Venus
On your lava fields placing her candid feet,
When a sad stillness thunders wherein the flame dies.
I hold the queen!

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These nymphs I would perpetuate.
So clear
Their light carnation, that it floats in the air
Heavy with tufted slumbers. Was it a dream I loved?

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Then shall I awake to the primitive fervour,
Straight and alone, 'neath antique floods of light,
Lilies and one of you all through my ingenuousness.

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Inert, all burns in the fierce hour

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No more, I must sleep, forgetting the outrage,
On the thirsty sand lying, and as I delight
Open my mouth to wine's potent star!
Adieu, both! I shall see the shade you became.

The Afternoon of a Faun (1876)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stéphane Mallarmé (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.