Stéphane Mallarmé

“ If understanding cannot sculpt a bas-relief
To ornament the dazzling tomb of Poe:
Calm block here fallen from obscure disaster,
Let this granite at least mark the boundaries evermore
To the dark flights of blasphemy hurled to the future. ”

“ As to Himself at last eternity changes him
The Poet reawakens with a naked sword
His century appalled at never having heard
That in this voice a triumphant death had sung its hymn. ”