Rimbaud 2- First Blood!
Sep. 9th, 2004 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jack_babalonSince i've run out of books to read, and my four color habit just isn't doing it for me right now,i've blown the dust off my old Baudelaire, Rimbaud & Verlaine reader I got for my birthday over a decade ago and revisted some dead frogs before passing out last night. It'sfun to realize how many of the nuances a 20 something me didn't pick up on at the time and going back now and rereading the prose poems I can remember the imagery and rhythm I wanted to appropiate(what an artist says instead of "stealing")into my own work.So I got French decadence on the brain right now and I thought I'd share...
"The worn-out ideas of old-fashioned poetry played an important part in my alchemy of the word.
I got used to elementary hallucination: I could very precisely see a mosque instead of a factory, a drum corps of angels, horse carts on the highways of the sky, a drawing room at the bottom of a lake; monsters and mysteries. A vaudeville's title filled me with awe.
And so I explained my magical sophistries by turning words into visions!"
-Arthur Rimbaud
Second Delerium:Alchemy of the word
"The worn-out ideas of old-fashioned poetry played an important part in my alchemy of the word.
I got used to elementary hallucination: I could very precisely see a mosque instead of a factory, a drum corps of angels, horse carts on the highways of the sky, a drawing room at the bottom of a lake; monsters and mysteries. A vaudeville's title filled me with awe.
And so I explained my magical sophistries by turning words into visions!"
-Arthur Rimbaud
Second Delerium:Alchemy of the word