Edgar Degas: "What a task!... I've spent the whole day long on one of these blessed sonnets and I've made no progress whatsoever... And yet I'm hardly lacking in ideas... I'm quite full of them... I've got too many in fact."
Stéphane Mallarmé: "But my dear Degas, one does not make poetry out of ideas, but out of words."
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Degas to Mallarmè
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