Selected writings
(Book)

Poems. The spinner

Fragments from The youngest of the fates

The bee

Fragments from Narcissus

The friendly wood

The graveyard by the sea

Palm

Song of the columns

The rower

The sleeping beauty (Au bois dormant)

Helen

Interior

The exquisite dancer

The cincture

The sylph

The footsteps (Les pas)

Life in death (La fausse morte). Prose poems. The young mother

How calm the hour is

The bath

As on the shore of the ocean

Psalm on a voice

Song of the master-idea. Prose writings. Fragments from Introduction to the method of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo and the philosophers (Extracts)

Two fragments from On Poe's eureka

Methodical conquest

Extraneous remarks. On poetry. With reference to Adonis

Knowledge of the goddess

Fragment from An inaugural address before the French Academy

Literature

A poet's letter

Extracts from A discourse on the declamation of verse

Fragment of The memories of a poem. On architecture. Four fragments from Eupalinos, or the architect. On the dance. From Dance and the soul. Essays on various subjects. On myths and mythology

Man and the night (Extract from Variations on an idea of Pascal)

Sketch on Descartes

On Bossuet

From a preface oto Montesquieu's Persian letters

On Mallarmé : Mallarmé's Coup de dés ; Last visit to Mallarmé

On painting (About Berthe Morisot)

An unpublished letter to Pierre Louts

Analecta : My body ; Order, disorder and oneself ; Abrupt changes in a selfsame thing ; Problem of the three bodies. The Teste cycle. Fragment from An evening with Mr. Teste

Fragment from A letter from Mrs. Emilie Teste

Two fragments from A letter to a friend. Theater. Sketches of My Faust.