genius, short

Sylvia 2022-04-22 07:01:55

The last sight of the sky connecting to the sea is not what Rimbaud wants for eternity. Because you can't see the sun.

Rimbaud's last kiss to Verlaine is something I will never forget. In fact, it is so illusory. I like both actors. One has a very pure British accent, neither lukewarm nor fragrant; the other is complete, standing in the play. Both are excellent, and Leo might be more appropriate. Life is so real. The poet of reality is mad for the dreamer, and the dreamer is mad only because he has not yet seen reality. A born poet who later stopped writing poetry was the greatest resistance Rimbaud could do.

I suddenly remembered Pu Shu's lyric "This is a world that can't stay too long". Sometimes there is a lot to say, but there are only a few words I want to say. But the same is true of life, the preparation and the delay in occupying the stage take longer than what is actually done.

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Total Eclipse quotes

  • [first lines]

    Paul Verlaine: Sometimes he speaks in a kind of tender dialect of the death which causes repentence, of the unhappy men who certainly exist, of painful tasks and heartrending departures. In the hovels where we got drunk he wept looking at those who surrounded us, the cattle of poverty. He lifted up drunks in the black streets. He had the pity a bad mother has for small children. He moved with the grace of a little girl at catechism. He pretended to know about everything, business, art, medicine. I followed him, I had to!

  • [last lines]

    Arthur Rimbaud: I've found it. What? Eternity. It's the sun mingled with the sea.