"... seuls les médiocres, ceux du Parnasse sont exclus de ma bibliothèque..." 

Autograph note signed by Francis Viélé-Griffin (13 lines in black ink from his Parisian residence on Quai de Passy) addressed to Edouard Ducoté, poet, bibliophile and director of the review l'Ermitage since 1895.
The note is written on cardboard bristol paper.
He lists his favorite poets while ironically commenting, in a slightly condescending manner, on his less "noble" reading: "... I therefore reread by preference Vigny, Lamartine, Verlaine and Laforgue; but I do not forbid myself the bad poets of whom I am particularly fond..." while disdaining and castigating: "... only the mediocre ones, those of the Parnasse, are excluded from my library..."
Close friend of Stéphane Mallarmé, friend of André Gide, Paul Valéry, Francis Jammes, Emile Verhaeren, Francis Viélé-Griffin is an American symbolist poet writing in French. He becomes, with Gustave Kahn, one of the principal theorists of free verse.