1858 - N. o ensaísta, escritor e filósofo francês Rémy de Gourmont, figura proeminente do movimento simbolista francês. Publicou cerca de 50 volumes constituídos principalmente por colectâneas de ensaios. Mais tarde, as suas opiniões sobre a literatura viriam a influenciar autores como Ezra Pound, John Middleton Murray e T.S. Eliot.
"Conformism, imitativeness, submission to rules and to teachings is the writer's capital crime. The work of a writer must be not only the reflection, but the larger reflection of his personality. The only excuse that a man has for his writing is to write about himself, to reveal to others the sort of world that is mirrored in his own glass; his only excuse is to be original; he must speak of things not yet spoken of in a form not yet formulated. He must create his own aesthetics - and we must admit as many aesthetics as there are original spirits and judge them for what they are, not for what they aren't." (Introdução de Book of Masks, 1896-98).
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