Editing Paul Fort (section)

===Post-war creation===

Following the theatrical adventure he had achieved, he dedicated his life to poetry. He gave his first poems to the [[Mercure de France]] in 1896. Those poems consisted the debut of the Ballades françaises (17 volumes written entering 1922 and 1958). He begins to publish into the Le Livre d'art magazine in 1892 where it was relaunched in 1896 with Maurice Dumont. With the latter, he edited L'épreuve, Journal-Album d'art in 1894.

By 1903 he organized and held Tuesday poetic lectures at the [[Closerie des Lilas]]. In 1905, he began publishing the magazine [[Vers et prose]] with Moréas and Salmon, who notably edited the works Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Pierre Louÿs. He edited it together with [[Paul Valéry]]. Pierre Louÿs, who wrote the prelude to the first volume of the ''Ballades'', defines them as small poems in polymorphous form or in familiar alexandrins, but which bend towards the normal prose form, requiring the rules of rhythmic prose rather than those of verse diction.

Given the title “[[commandeur de la Légion d'honneur]]”{{when?|date=September 2021}}, he helped to give the quartier du [[Montparnasse]] in Paris its artistic reputation. A poll of five literary magazines ([[Gil Blas]], [[Comoedia]], La Phalange, Les Loups and [[Les Nouvelles]]) gave him the title "[[Prince of Poets]]" in 1912. Then, 350 authors voted him as the true heir to [[Verlaine]], [[Stéphane Mallarme|Mallarmé]] and [[Léon Dierx]].

In August 1913, his sixteen-year-old daughter Jeanne married futurist painter [[Gino Severini]]. Fort lead the ceremonies, Severini had as witnesses [[Guillaume Apollinaire]], and [[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti|Filippo Marinetti]], the author of the [[Manifesto of Futurism|Futurist Manifesto]]. Apollinaire wrote to Madeleine Pagès two years later: “I received the idiotic lyrical report of Paul Fort, the highfalutin prince of poets, who sings to battles in far away lands in a truly foolish language.”