From the Stéphane Mallarmé page on Wikiquote:
- Degas was discussing poetry with Mallarmé; "It isn't ideas I'm short of... I've got too many" [Ce ne sont pas les idées qui me manquent... J'en ai trop], said Degas. "But Degas," replied Mallarmé, "you can't make a poem with ideas. ... You make it with words." [Mais, Degas, ce n'est point avec des idées que l'on fait des vers. . . . C'est avec des mots.]
- From Degas, Manet, Morisot by Paul Valéry (trans. David Paul), Princeton University Press, 1960.
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