For the poet, « keeping oneself alive is not living ». For the poet, only the beautiful account. For him, art is more useful than the rest. For the poet, these things are not really necessary compared to the beautiful and art. He describes the really useful things for life as « a little soup and a piece of meat twice a day (…), a hollow cube measuring seven or eight feet in each direction, equipped with a breathing hole and a blanket ».
He says : « Our being alive and on earth is of very little service ». According to Gautier, there is absolutely nothing useful on this Earth. As for the cobbler, the rhymes are useless when the shoe is required. For the poet (Gautier), the rhymes are useful. For Gautier, there are two kinds of utility, and the word is relatif in sense : « What is of service to one person is useless for another ».
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