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Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul!

An infinite
Resignedness
Rains where the white
Mists opalesce
In the moon-shower ...

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

A flat black bug, that is London.

Tired of life, afraid of death, not unlike
A lost brig, toy of ebb and flow on the ocean,
My soul weighs anchor for a frightful shipwreck.

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

Night. Rain. A livid sky pierces the lacework
Of spires and towers, the silhouette of a Gothic
Town dim in the gray distance.

Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!

Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.
Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town.

Music before all else,
and for that choose the irregular,
which is vaguer and melts better into the air ...

I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

What we need, we, is fixedness intense, Unequalled effort, strife that shall not cease,

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.