The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
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True life is elsewhere.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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