“All who remember the day when first they looked into the Poems or the Divagations will testify to that curious feeling of exclusion which put them, in the face of a text written with their words (and moreover, as they could somehow feel, magnificently written), suddenly outside their own language, deprived of their rights in a common speech, and, as it were, rejected by their oldest friends.”
— Literary critic Charles Mauron, writing about the earliest experiences of discovering the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé