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The article presents Les Nuits by Alfred de Musset – one of the most interesting romantic poetical cycle, as a testimony of the act of creation. The topos of turning to the Muse is reinterpreted, it takes a form of an argument over poetry between the Poet and the Muse. A Poet opposes the poetry expressed to the silent poetry of the hart; he refuses to verbalise his painful experiences, which means, that he refuses to create. Finally, a Poet accepts to regard his emotions from a distance: in a perspective of the Muse, which permits to create. These two attitudes overlap because each of them determinate the lyrical subject of the cycle, tradition overlaps the individual genius. Conclusion of the article is that Musset’s cycle is a kind of poetry witch, paradoxally, indicates rejection of the poetry.