Quotes by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

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Where historians stop, because they no longer know anything, poets appear and guess.

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In the order of creation, we consider the literary phenomenon an act of knowledge and knowledge.

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We reject the classical equation: art - nature and postulate the affirmation of the work of art as a sensitized cerebral superstructure.

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For me, poetry is an extension of geometry.

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I wanted in my versifications to give the equivalent of absolute states of intellect and vision; the state of geometry and, above it, ecstasy…

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As in geometry, I understand by poetry a certain symbolism for the representation of possible forms, of existence... there is... somewhere, in the high domain of geometry, a bright place where it meets poetry.