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"'No more of this for God's dear dignity!'
Our Host said suddenly. 'You're wearying me
To death, I say, with your illiterate stuff.
God bless my soul! I've had about enough.'
...
'Why so?' said I, 'Why should you hinder me
In telling my tale more than another man,
Since I am giving you the best I can?'
'By God,' he said, 'put plainly in a word,
Your dreary rhyming isn't worth a turd!'" — Nov 22, 2025 04:13PM
"'No more of this for God's dear dignity!'
Our Host said suddenly. 'You're wearying me
To death, I say, with your illiterate stuff.
God bless my soul! I've had about enough.'
...
'Why so?' said I, 'Why should you hinder me
In telling my tale more than another man,
Since I am giving you the best I can?'
'By God,' he said, 'put plainly in a word,
Your dreary rhyming isn't worth a turd!'" — Nov 22, 2025 04:13PM
“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
― Eros the Bittersweet
― Eros the Bittersweet
“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
“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.”
― Complete Works
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.”
― Complete Works
“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance.”
― Complete Works
― Complete Works
“True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.”
― Illuminations
― Illuminations
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