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Started this book to celebrate Verlaine’s birthday(Mar 30). Read “My Familiar Dream” and it was nice.

“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.”

Eh his poems get more and more gay he’s just like me fr

Bah Rimbaud is better

The thing I love most about Verlaine’s poetry is his transition from fooling himself into heterosexuality to being captivated in a homoerotic relationship to the evil impulses that “impure” love brought him.

Et dont l’aspect nous fit tant songer tout un jour

L’autre aussi faisait la sucrée. Et rentrait sa griffe acérée, mais le diable n’y perdait rien.

“old Cyprus wine’s no charm for me, compared, Camargo, with your neck.”
“may i die, ladies, instantly, if i don’t unhook for you a star.”
dragging my hands down my face and slithering onto the floor. when and why did we stop approaching romance through the lens of a french poet