Occupation: Poet Birth: October 20, 1854 Death: November 10, 1891
...as for me, I am intact; and I don't care..
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the bra….
What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world..
You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life..
A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn..
Life is the farce we are all forced to endure..
Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of us - in ecstasy!.
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her..
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there..
Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?.
I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul..
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge..
My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?.
But the problem is to make the soul into a monster.
I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow..
Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels..
...You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of th….
What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!.
It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human..
As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen..