madness

Charles Baudelaire – Ossessione / Obsession

Maxim Vorobiev, Oak Fractured by Lightning, 1842 Great woods, you frighten me like cathedrals; you roar like the organ; and in our cursed hearts, rooms of endless mourning where old death-rattles sound, respond the echoes of your De profundis.I hate you, Ocean! your bounding and your tumult, my mind finds them within itself; that bitter laugh of the vanquished man, …

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William Butler Yeats – La seconda venuta / The Second Coming

Giovanni da Modena, The Hell (detail), 1412 c. Turning and turning in the widening gyre   The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   The ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worst   Are full of passionate intensity.Surely some …

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Allen Ginsberg – Howl/Urlo (for Carl Solomon)

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural …

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