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The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
Source: Variations sur un sujet, Crise de Vers, in La Revue Blanche (Paris), Sep 1895.
-- Stephane Mallarme, (Mar 18 1842-1898), French poet; He was the originator and a leader, with Paul Verlaine, of the Symbolist movement in poetry.