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A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.
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You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
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We do not write poems with ideas, but with words.
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The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.
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The whole world is made to end up in a beautiful book.
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Such as into himself at last Eternity has changed him.
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The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.
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The flesh is sorrowful, alas! And I've read all the books.
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All alone I gave
Myself for triumph the ideal sin of roses.
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It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.
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The flesh, alas, is wearied; and I have read all the books there are.
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Coup de des jamis n'abolira le hasard A Cast of Dice Never Can Annul Chance
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The sun as it's halted
Miraculously exalted
Resumes its descent Incandescent.
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The work of pure poetry implies the elocutionary disappearance of the poet, who yields the initiative to words.
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Magical shadow with symbolic powers!
A voice from the distant past, an evocation,
Is it not mine prepared for incantation?
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Away with those perfumes that do me harm!
I hate them, nurse, and would you have me feel
Their drunken vapors make my senses reel?
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Are you a living princess or her shadow?
Let me kiss your fingers and their rings, and bid you
Walk no longer in an unknown age...
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The poetic act consists in suddenly seeing that an idea splits into a number of motives of equal value and in grouping them; they rhyme.
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O Spirit of litigation, know,
When we keep silent in this season,
The stem of multiple lilies grew
Too large to be contained by reason
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These nymphs I would perpetuate.
So clear
Their light carnation, that it floats in the air
Heavy with tufted slumbers. Was it a dream I loved?
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Then shall I awake to the primitive fervour,
Straight and alone, 'neath antique floods of light,
Lilies and one of you all through my ingenuousness.
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Etna! 'tis amid you, visited by Venus
On your lava fields placing her candid feet,
When a sad stillness thunders wherein the flame dies.
I hold the queen!
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To name an object is to take away three-fourths of the pleasure given by a poem. This pleasure consists in guessing little by little: to suggest it, that is the ideal.
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A kiss would kill me, woman,
If beauty were not death...
By what attraction
Am I drawn, what morn forgotten by the prophets
That pours on the dying distance its sad rites?
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No more, I must sleep, forgetting the outrage,
On the thirsty sand lying, and as I delight
Open my mouth to wine's potent star!
Adieu, both! I shall see the shade you became.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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Born:
March 18, 1842
Died:
September 9, 1898
(aged 56)
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