The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAnd from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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