The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
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.