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There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- Poetry. All the rest is a lie -- except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. . .

Source: Letter, 14 May 1867. Quoted in: Frederic Chase St. Aubyn, Mallarm?, ch. 1, 1969.
-- Stephane Mallarme, (Mar 18 1842-1898), French poet; He was the originator and a leader, with Paul Verlaine, of the Symbolist movement in poetry.

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