i12bent: Last year we had a major Rimbaud tribute on this day, Oct. 20, the 155th birthday of the young Poète Maudit… This year, just the best known of all the - scarce - photos of Arthur (by Étienne Carjat, c. 1871), and a little poem: Rimbaud: Sensation Through blue summer nights I will pass along paths, Pricked by wheat, trampling short grass: Dreaming, I will feel coolness underfoot, Will let breezes bathe my bare head. Not a word, not a thought: Boundless love will surge through my soul, And I will wander far away, a vagabond In Nature - as happily as with a woman. - From Rimbaud Complete, translated and edited by Wyatt Mason

i12bent:

Last year we had a major Rimbaud tribute on this day, Oct. 20, the 155th birthday of the young Poète Maudit…

This year, just the best known of all the - scarce - photos of Arthur (by Étienne Carjat, c. 1871), and a little poem:

Rimbaud: Sensation

Through blue summer nights I will pass along paths,
Pricked by wheat, trampling short grass:
Dreaming, I will feel coolness underfoot,
Will let breezes bathe my bare head.

Not a word, not a thought:
Boundless love will surge through my soul,
And I will wander far away, a vagabond
In Nature - as happily as with a woman.

- From Rimbaud Complete, translated and edited by Wyatt Mason

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    Cрећан рођендан драги дечаче! [he had only 15 when this was taken if i recall well;]
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    mason translation is still...best, in my opinion. i also would never have discovered...
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