poète maudit

Tristan Corbiere – Piccola morte per ridere / A little death to make one laugh

Gustave Moreau, Dead poet borne by centaur, 1890 Go quickly, wanton comber of comets!In wind, the grass will become your hair;from the yawning socket of your eye flaretiny fires, mad prisoners in an oubliette.The blooms on your grave, taking love’s sobriquet,swell your earthbound laughter…And forget-me-nots, flowers one is doomed to forget…Don’t make it too heavy. …

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Dario Bellezza – Il mare di soggettività sto perlustrando/The sea of subjectivity I am scouring

Giovanni Boldini, Portrait of Diego Martelli, 1865 The sea of subjectivity I am scouring forgetful of every other dimension.What the critics want I cannot give. Only vocality ranting infidelitycowardly petulance. And yet beyond my rather gutted self there lies the changeable surrender to the everyday. To suffer humanlythe rhetoric of all the normal days of …

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Guillaume Apollinaire – My friends finally admitted their contempt

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket, 1875 My friends finally admitted their contempt   Out of brimming glasses I drank down the stars  And while I slept an angel massacred The lambs and shepherds of a woeful folds Some false centurions brought vinegar  The wounded wretches danced as the …

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