I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty — and beauty has only one perfect expression, Po… - Stéphane Mallarmé

«No fundo o mundo foi feito para acabar num belo livro.»

Verse is everywhere in language where there is rhythm, everywhere, except in notices and on page four of the papers. In the genre called prose, there are verses [...] of all rhythms. But in truth there is no prose: there is the alphabet, and then verses more or less tight, more or less diffuse.

Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd'hui
Va-t-il nous déchirer avec un coup d'aile ivre
Ce lac dur oublié que hante sous le givre
Le transparent glacier des vols qui n'ont pas fui !