Rimbaud The Son Quotes

“If at that moment in the shade of the hazel trees we were permitted to see that hand as Verlaine saw it, and gradually above in the leaves the sulking face, the crooked tie, the tousled hair, if the mouth said merde, if more likely it was saying: read, extending toward us a poem with a begging, sullen, sovereign air, if before our eyes we read, we would know only what it is permitted to know on earth - what the ant knows who, without regard for the lines, is still running its way across my page, mute as the garden.”
― Pierre Michon