He said that his object was to rely upon nature and truth, and to invest the whole with imagination and sensibility--that delicate touch which vibrated through all the poems he had written.

His auditors were riveted by his sparkling and brilliant conversation.
This seance at M.Thierry's completed the triumph of Jasmin at Paris.
The doors of the most renowned salons were thrown open to him.

The most brilliant society in the capital listened to him and feted him.

Madame de Remusat sent him a present of a golden pen, with the words: "I admire your beautiful poetry; I never forget you; accept this little gift as a token of my sincere admiration." Lamartine described Jasmin, perhaps with some exaggeration, as the truest and most original of modern poets.
Much of Jasmin's work was no doubt the result of intuition, for "the poet is born, not made." He was not so much the poet of art as of instinct.

Yet M.Charles de Mazede said of him: "Left to himself, without study, he carried art to perfection." His defect of literary education perhaps helped him, by leaving him to his own natural instincts.