#Jean-Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud

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Portrait of Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91), c.1870 - Étienne Carjat

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Poetas Malditos Fue un movimiento que tuvo lugar en la Francia del XIX y que reunió a un grupo de poetas que promovían un tipo de arte y de estilo de vida totalmente rompedor y fuera de reglas. Son los bohemios franceses, los artistas incomprendidos que veían belleza allá donde nadie la veía y que querían experimentar al máximo con la vida sin importarles la moralidad ni las convenciones sociales. Los poetas malditos cultivaban un tipo de poesía que emanaba cierto aire gótico y donde existía una actitud fuertemente destructiva. Una poesía cuidada y repleta de una belleza siniestra que se separaba ligeramente de la tradición romántica para ofrecer una literatura más oscura, más sugestiva y devastadora. Debido a su propuesta estilística, los poetas malditos fueron incomprendidos entre la sociedad de la época ya que apostaban por un tipo de poesía que estaba totalmente fuera de la razón y de la lógica. Fueron criticados tanto por su poesía como por su personalidad o su manera de vivir ya que se alejaban totalmente de la moral imperante en la sociedad puritana de la época. Rehuyeron de forma voluntaria de la escena pública de la sociedad francesa.Estos poetas salieron de la vida "moral" cristiana para introducirse en ese otro mundo oscuro, de vicio y placer, protagonizado por las drogas, el sexo y el juego. Y este es el marco donde se crearon muchos de sus poemas, algo que no podía ser bien acogido por la Francia del Romanticismo. El nombre de esta generación viene de la publicación de Paul Verlaine, "Los poetas malditos", un ensayo en el que el autor hablaba sobre el tipo de vida y literatura que llevaron a cabo 6 poetas (él incluido), un camino que les llevó a tener una vida "maldita", es decir, una vida llena de tormentos e incomprensión.Con el tiempo, el término acuñado por Verlaine fue generalizado y, hoy en día, denominamos "malditismo" a una condición artística que apunta a aquellos creadores que salen de la norma pautada y que se alejan de la sociedad. Los artistas rebeldes e incomprendidos. Autores destacados: Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867) Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854 –1891) Paul-Marie Verlaine (1844 – 1896) Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 – 1898) Tristan Corbière Características de los poetas malditos Sentimiento pesimista Textos oscuros Actitud de rebeldía Poesía metafísica Arquitectos del lenguaje

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … October 20

1854 – Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (d.1891) was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent movement, Rimbaud influenced modern literature, music and art. He was known to have been a libertine and a restless soul, travelling extensively on three continents before his death from cancer just after his 37th birthday.

At the age of fifteen, Rimbaud was showing maturity as a poet; the first poem he showed his tutor, Georges Izambard, "Ophélie", would later be included in anthologies as one of Rimbaud's three or four best poems. When the Franco-Prussian War broke out, Izambard left Charleville and Rimbaud became despondent. He ran away to Paris with no money for his ticket and was subsequently arrested and imprisoned for a week. After returning home, Rimbaud ran away again to escape his mother's wrath.

From late October 1870, Rimbaud's behaviour became outwardly provocative; he drank alcohol, spoke rudely, composed scatological poems, stole books from local shops, and abandoned his hitherto characteristically neat appearance by allowing his hair to grow long. At the same time he wrote to Izambard about his method for attaining poetical vision through a "long, intimidating, immense and rational derangement of all the senses. The sufferings are enormous, but one must be strong, be born a poet, and I have recognized myself as a poet." It is rumoured that he briefly joined the Paris Commune of 1871, which he portrayed in his poem L'orgie parisienne (ou : Paris se repeuple), ("The Parisian Orgy; or Paris Repopulates"). Another poem, Le cœur volé ("The Stolen Heart"), is often interpreted as a description of him being raped by drunken Communard soldiers, but this is unlikely since Rimbaud continued to support the Communards and wrote poems sympathetic to their aims.

Rimbaud was encouraged by a friend to write to Paul Verlaine, an eminent poet, after letters to other poets failed to garner replies. Taking his advice, Rimbaud sent Verlaine two letters containing several of his poems. Verlaine, who was intrigued by Rimbaud, sent a reply that stated, "Come, dear great soul. We await you; we desire you," along with a one-way ticket to Paris. Rimbaud arrived in late September 1871 at Verlaine's invitation and resided briefly in Verlaine's home.

Rimbaud and Verlaine began a short and torrid affair. Whereas Verlaine had likely engaged in prior homosexual experiences, it remains uncertain whether the relationship with Verlaine was Rimbaud's first. During their time together they led a wild, vagabond-like life spiced by absinthe and hashish. They scandalized the Parisian literary circle on account of the outrageous behaviour of Rimbaud, the archetypical enfant terrible, who throughout this period continued to write strikingly visionary verse. The stormy relationship between Rimbaud and Verlaine eventually brought them to London in September 1872, a period about which Rimbaud would later express regret. During this time, Verlaine abandoned his wife and infant son (both of whom he had abused in his alcoholic rages). Rimbaud and Verlaine lived in considerable poverty, in Bloomsbury and in Camden Town, scraping a living mostly from teaching, in addition to an allowance from Verlaine's mother. Rimbaud spent his days in the Reading Room of the British Museum where "heating, lighting, pens and ink were free." The relationship between the two poets grew increasingly bitter.

By late June 1873, Verlaine grew frustrated with the relationship and returned to Paris, where he quickly began to mourn Rimbaud's absence. On 8 July, he telegraphed Rimbaud, instructing him to come to the Hotel Liège in Brussels; Rimbaud complied at once. The Brussels reunion went badly: they argued continuously and Verlaine took refuge in heavy drinking. On the morning of 10 July, Verlaine bought a revolver and ammunition.That afternoon, "in a drunken rage," Verlaine fired two shots at Rimbaud, one of them wounding the 18-year-old in the left wrist.

Rimbaud dismissed the wound as superficial, and did not initially seek to file charges against Verlaine. But shortly after the shooting, Verlaine (and his mother) accompanied Rimbaud to a Brussels railway station, where Verlaine "behaved as if he were insane." His bizarre behavior induced Rimbaud to "fear that he might give himself over to new excesses," so he turned and ran away. In his words, "it was then I [Rimbaud] begged a police officer to arrest him [Verlaine]." Verlaine was arrested for attempted murder and subjected to a humiliating medico-legal examination. He was also interrogated with regard to both his intimate correspondence with Rimbaud and his wife's accusations about the nature of his relationship with Rimbaud. Rimbaud eventually withdrew the complaint, but the judge nonetheless sentenced Verlaine to two years in prison.

At 21, Rimbaud quit writing and sought other employments to help him travel widely in Europe, The Dutch East Indies, and North Africa where he developed an infection in his leg in 1891. He shipped back to Marseilles, where the cancerous leg was amputated. He died in November of that year.

1871 – George Seymour, 7th Marquess of Hertford (d.1940) was the son of Hugh Seymour, 6th Marquess of Hertford.

In 1895, he was sent to Australia by his family "for the good of his health and the country", due to his blatant homosexual behaviour. He settled in Mackay, growing sugar cane and bananas, but quickly created great animosity, due to being a dishonest employer: he was sued by a labourer (who won the case) for underpayment, and boasted tricking kanakas (Pacific Islanders) who purchased his chickens into thinking gold sovereigns were less valuable than silver half crowns.

He was noted for all-male house parties at his isolated residence 'The Rocks' near Mackay, and achieved notoriety for "skirt dancing" in a sequinned outfit with butterfly wings, as one newspaper phrased it: "gyrating in the fluffy serpentine dance before a Kanaka audience... His legs being tough and skinny his audience show little inclination to pot him as long pig." When he returned to England in 1897, a Mackay newspaper noted the citizens were "more interested in his departure" than his arrival.

From 1889 to 1894, he served in the Black Watch and was a Lieutenant in the Warwickshire Imperial Yeomanry. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant for Warwickshire and Justice of the Peace for Warwickshire.

He appeared on stage in the United States in one of Charles Frohman's companies under the name of Eric Hope.

He filed for bankruptcy in 1909 and 1910, shortly before inheriting his father's titles and estate, Ragley Hall.

In 1884, he became the Earl of Yarmouth and in 1901, he became the 7th Marquess of Hertford.

After his father's death on 23 March 1912, he succeeded as the 7th Earl of Hertford, the 7th Earl of Yarmouth, the 8th Baron Conway of Ragley, the 7th Viscount Beauchamp, the 7th Marquess of Hertford, and the 8th Baron Conway and Killultagh.

On 27 April 1903, he married heiress Alice Cornelia Thaw. She was the daughter of William Thaw Sr. At the wedding he extorted her parents to increase the dowry under the threat he would not go through the marriage. The marriage was annulled in 1908 due to non-consummation. As part of the divorce, all financial interests were returned to Thaw, and she resumed using her maiden name.

In May 1913, he became engaged to a Mrs. Moss-Cockle, who was much older than him and received $3,250,000 by her former husband. By July of the same year, the engagement was called off, with The New York Times writing: "It is rumored that lately the course of true love has not been running as smoothly as it ought to in the case of the Marquis of Hartford and Mrs. Moss Cockie, whose engagement was recently announced."

Lord Hertford died at his home in Torquay, Devonshire in 1940, aged 68 and childless. His titles passed to his nephew, Hugh Seymour.

1926 – Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (d.2015) was a British Conservative politician well known in Britain for founding the National Motor Museum, as well as for a pivotal cause célèbre in British gay history, his 1954 conviction and imprisonment for homosexual sex, a charge he denied.

Lord Montagu was born in London, and inherited his barony in 1929 at the age of two, when his father, the 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, was killed in an accident. He attended St. Peter's Court School and Ridley College in Canada, Eton College and New College, Oxford. He served in the Grenadier Guards, including service in Palestine before the end of the British Mandate. On coming of age, Lord Montagu immediately took his seat in the House of Lords and swiftly made his maiden speech on the subject of Palestine.

Lord Montagu knew from an early stage of life that he was bisexual, and while attending Oxford was relieved to find others with similar feelings. In a 2000 interview he stated,

"My attraction to both sexes neither changed nor diminished at university and it was comforting to find that I was not the only person faced with such a predicament. I agonised less than my contemporaries, for I was reconciled to my bisexuality, but I was still nervous about being exposed."

Despite keeping his homosexual affairs discreet and out of the public eye, in the mid-1950s, Lord Montagu became "one of the most notorious public figures of his generation," after his conviction and imprisonment for "conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offences with male persons," a charge which was also used in the Oscar Wilde trials in 1895, and remained on the books until 1967.

On two occasions Lord Montagu was charged and committed for trial at Winchester Assizes, firstly in 1953 for allegedly taking sexual advantage of a 14-year-old Boy Scout at his beach hut on the Solent, a charge he has always denied. When prosecutors failed to achieve a conviction, in what Lord Montagu has characterised as a "witch hunt" to secure a high-profile conviction, he was arrested again in 1954 and charged with performing "gross offences" with an RAF serviceman during a weekend party at the beach hut, located on Lord Montagu's country estate. Lord Montagu has always maintained he was innocent of this charge as well ("We had some drinks, we danced, we kissed, that's all.") Nevertheless, he was imprisoned for twelve months for "consensual homosexual offences" along with Michael Pitt-Rivers and Peter Wildeblood.

Unlike the other defendants in the trial, Lord Montagu continued to protest his innocence. The trial caused a backlash of opinion among some politicians and church leaders that led to the setting up of the Wolfenden Committee, which in its 1957 report recommended the decriminalisation of homosexual activity in private between two adults. Ten years later, Parliament finally carried out the recommendation, a huge turning point in gay history in Britain, where male homosexuality had been completely outlawed in statute law since 1533.

In a 2007 interview, when asked if he felt that he and his co-defendants had been instrumental in the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Britain, Lord Montagu said,

"I am slightly proud that the law has been changed to the benefit of so many people. I would like to think that I would get some credit for that. Maybe I'm being very boastful about it but I think because of the way we behaved and conducted our lives afterwards, because we didn't sell our stories, we just returned quietly to our lives, I think that had a big effect on public opinion."

The story of Lord Montagu's trial is told in a 2007 Channel 4 documentary, A Very British Sex Scandal.

1941 – South African police are called in to quiet a disturbance at a gold mine caused by the dismissal of 122 miners for refusing to stop dances in which boys are squeezed and kissed.

1969 – The National Institutes of Mental Health released a report based on a study led by psychologist Dr. Evelyn Hooker. The report urged states to repeal sodomy laws.

1994 – Brennan Clost is a Canadian actor and dancer, known for portraying the role of Daniel on the Family series The Next Step. In 2020, he starred in the Netflix dance drama series Tiny Pretty Things.

Clost was born in Burlington, Ontario. Whilst growing up, he was bullied by classmates, stating that they made "very crass comments", threw snowballs at him and he would "get looks" in the hallway. Clost studied dance at various dance studios across southern Ontario, including National Ballet School of Canada and Springboard Danse Montreal. Initially wanting to study medicine at university, he was advised by his dance teacher to audition for the Juilliard School.

In March 2012, he auditioned and was accepted into the Juilliard School on a scholarship, making it as one of two male Canadian dancers to be accepted onto the course. Clost's choreography was showcased annually at Juilliard's Choreographic Honours Program and in elementary schools throughout New York City, and he graduated in 2016. Through dance, Clost has damaged his ankle, had Achilles tendinitis and had "serious wrist and shoulder problems". Clost has stated that he does not label himself with a sexuality, but added that he is "not straight".

In 2017, Clost starred in the in web series Spiral, alongside The Next Step co-star Alexandra Beaton. In 2019, he was cast in the Netflix dance drama series Tiny Pretty Things as Shane, which premiered in December 2020.

1995 – Dalton Maldonado is an American high school basketball player and LGBT rights activist, who came to National prominence whe he shared his harrowing tale of intimidation when he came out at a high school basketball game in Kentucky.

In 2015, he was featured as one of the most influential people in the LGBT community by the magazine Out and he was named "Person of the Year" by Outsports. He grew up in Kentucky and became known after coming out after a basketball game. His coming out gained national attention after being featured in Outsports magazine. Maldonado wants to make sure no other teen endures the harassment he received after coming out in December 2014.

Following reports that he had been harassed because of his sexuality by the rival team from Bryan Station High School, both schools were challenged in the press. Both schools said that they had conducted internal investigations and denied any wrongdoing. The Fayette County Public Schools administration's investigation concluded that the event "was inaccurately reported and mischaracterized" by media.

After coming out, Maldonado's picture was left out of the two-page spread that commemorated his basketball team in his senior yearbook. In addition to the team photo, there were individual call-outs for every member of the team except Maldonado. His school, Betsy Layne High School, claimed that the omission was accidental and that the school district "holistically supports Dalton Maldonado just as we do all our students". They point out that the book includes 15 photos of Maldonado, including many that show him playing basketball.

Maldonado has a fragrance released by Xyrena called Formula 3, sales of which will support the LGBT sports organization "You Can Play". Fragrance industry analysts Basenotes claim that this is "the first signature fragrance from an openly gay athlete".

Maldonado was invited to speak at The Atlantic's inaugural LGBT summit in Washington D.C. in December 2015, aiming to "convene wide-ranging conversations on queer identity in America, at the end of a game-changing year in arenas from politics to pop culture".

1997 – Portugal's first Gay and Lesbian Community Centre opened in Lisbon.

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Lines by Rimbaud

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes, and his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism.

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When the world comes down to this one dark wood Before our four astonished eyes... To a beach for two faithful children... To a house of music, for our clear accord... I will find you.

Let there be no one here below but one old man, Beautiful and calm, surrounded with "unimagined luxury"... I will be at your feet.

Let me penetrate all of your memories... Let me be that woman who can bind you hand and foot... I will strangle you.

When we are very strong--who can hold us back? And very gay--how can ridicule harm us? When we are very bad--what can they do to us? Dress yourself up, And dance, And laugh. I could never throw Love out the window.

My companion, my beggar girl, monstrous child! How little you care, About these unhappy women, about the intrigues of misfortune, About my own extremity.

Beguile us with your impossible voice-- That voice! The single flatterer of our abject despair.

A lowering morning in July. A taste of ashes fills the air; A smell of sweating wood stains the hearth. Drowned flowers, The spoils of long walks... A misty rain from canals beyond the fields.

Why not even trinkets and incense?

I have strung ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; And golden chains from star to star...

And I dance.

Smoke always rises from the distant pond. What witch will ascend against the white sunset? What violet streamers will come dropping down?

While the public funds dwindle in feasts of fraternity, A bell of rosy fire rings in the clouds.

Breathing a sweet smell of India ink, A powdery blackness drifts slowly over my lateness... I lower the lights, lie down on my bed, And, rolled into the shadows, I see you--

My darlings, my queens!

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[Biografía] Arthur Rimbaud: el genio que abandonó la poesía a los 20 años

  Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud, uno de los poetas más influyentes y enigmáticos de la historia de la literatura, nació el 20 de octubre de 1854 en Charleville, una pequeña ciudad en la región de las Ardenas, en Francia. Desde una edad temprana, Rimbaud demostró un talento excepcional y una mente creativa prodigiosa que lo llevaría a revolucionar la poesía y a convertirse en un ícono del…

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Al Cabaret-Vert di Arthur Rimbaud

Al Cabaret-Vert di Arthur Rimbaud

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854 – 1891) è stato un poeta francese. cinque della seraDa otto giorni laceravo i miei stivaliSulle pietre dei sentieri. Entrai a Charleroi.– Al Cabaret-vert: chiesi dei crostini di burroE del prosciutto che fosse mezzo freddo.Beato, distesi le gambe sotto il tavolo verde:Contemplai i soggetti piuttosto ingenuiDella tappezzeria. – E fu adorabile,Quando la ragazza…

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..i.. jean nicolas arthur rimbaud... what's yours...?

..you so small...

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I am not…

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Books On Books Collection - Le Cadratin

Books On Books Collection – Le Cadratin

Voyelles (2012) Voyelles (1871/1883/2012)Arthur RimbaudDesign and direction: Jean-Renaud Dagon H325 x W235 mm, 32 unnumbered pages. Edition of 200, of which this is #67. Acquired from Le Cadratin, 6 November 2021.Photos: Books On Books Collection. Le Cadratin is more than a typesetting and printing house or fine press. An atelier-typographique, founded by Jean-Renaud Dagon, its artists perform…

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Bonjour maman! I hope you are doing well. I am an avid reader and lover of poetry and I have wanted to read French poetry for a long, long time. Could you please suggest some poems/collections (B1 - B2) for me?

Hello dear,

It would be hard to make a universal list for this because B1/B2 can look many different ways, the best advice I have is to check out famous authors and see at first glance if their stuff looks too hard for you or not. Here are the basics and an example:

B1/B2 with a good dictionary:

Correspondance by Charles Baudelaire

Dans les bois by Paul Verlaine

La demoiselle by Théophile Gautier

Les malheureux by Louise Ackermann ♀

Crépuscule by Guillaume Apollinaire

Les yeux d'Elsa by Louis Aragon (which I would claim to be the most beautiful love poem in the world)

L'hirondelle by Sophie d'Arbouville ♀

Chanson à boire by Nicolas Boileau

La nuit de printemps by Théodore de Banville

L'ennui de Léonore by Victoire Babois ♀

Les feuilles mortes by Jacques Prévert

Regrets d'amour by Pierre Corneille

Des vivants et des morts - Andrée Chedid ♀

Le désir by Anatole France

À Aurore by George Sand ♀

Par un mauvais temps by Alfred de Musset

Melancholia by Victor Hugo

Le bonheur est mélancolique by Cécile Sauvage ♀

C1/C2 but give it a try anyway:

Première soirée by Arthur Rimbaud

Luth compagnon de ma calamité by Louise Labé ♀

La sagesse by Alphonse de Lamartine

Prière de Socrate by Gérard de Nerval

Le temps de vivre by Anna de Noailles ♀

Le songe by Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Ce que dit l'homme de peine by Paul Éluard

Élégie du printemps by Pierre de Ronsard

La grande douleur que je porte by Christine de Pisan ♀

Poème à Uranie - Voltaire

La prison by Alfred de Vigny

L'amour et la folie by Jean de la Fontaine

Ô qu'une sagesse profonde by François de Malherbe

L'âme errante by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore ♀

Les fleurs by Stéphane Mallarmé

Le lundi à Vêpres by Jean Racine

C'était novembre by Vénus Khoury-Ghata (1937-) ♀

Holy shit:

Escargots by Francis Ponge (XX, surrealism)

Nous ne sommes fâchés by Joachim Du Bellay (XVI)

Ballade des dames du temps jadis by François Villon (XV)

Lai du Frêne by Marie de France ♀ (XII)

Je brûle avec mon coeur by Théodore Aggripa d'Aubigné (XVI)

Plus:

Entire anthology about female poetry

Hope this helps! x

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then my names Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud.

..excuse me... you don't look japanese..

- @tiny-illumination

…I’m not, I’m actually French.

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"¿No son acaso la fe los poetas?" ― Arthur Rimbaud #Cartas

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Poetry of the day - Roman by Arthur Rimbaud

Poetry of the day – Roman by Arthur Rimbaud

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (Charleville, 20 October 1854 – Marseille, 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes. He influenced modern literature and arts, prefiguring Surrealism, Symbolism, and Dadaism. Rimbaud, image taken from Wikipedia ROMAN I On n’est pas sérieux, quand on a dix-sept ans.—Un beau soir, foin des bocks et de la limonade,Ces cafés…

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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud. Yes.

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Do not kill anyone here.. Or I'll send you to the corner to think of what you did .

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Evening Prayer (Oraison du Soir)

I live life like an angel in a barber’s chair, gripping the grooves on my fat mug of ale, a pipe between my teeth, beneath stale, foul air, bloated with smoke like a puffed-out sail.

Like warm shit smoldering in pigeon coops, a thousand dreams burn softly in my soul. My heart is as sad as a sap tree that stoops, bleeding its deep colors of yellow and gold.

And then, once I’ve swallowed my visions with care, some forty drinks in me, I proceed to get up and unleash the bitter need I no longer can bear:

And sweetly as Jesus when he drained his last cup, I piss toward the dark skies in an arc through the air, and as if to approve, morning flowers open up.”

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud 

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Arthur Rimbaud. Undated, unlocated, unattributed.

Happy birthday, Jean Nicolas Arthur; this is perhaps the last time I have the honor of celebrate you.

Feliz cumpleaños, Jean Nicolas Arthur; quizás sea esta la última vez que tengo el honor de celebrarte.