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“The poet devotes and consumes himself to defining and constructing a language within language.”

Original: Le poète se consacre et se consume à définir et à construire un langage dans le langage. — Poetry is presented as the creation of a heightened language within ordinary language. · Variété (French)

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Paul Valéry

30 October 1871–20 July 1945

In the autumn of 1871, as France was still reeling from the trauma of the Franco-Prussian War and the violent suppression of the Paris Commune, a child was born in the Mediterranean port town of Sète who would become one of the twentieth century's most formidable literary intellects. Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules…

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