Fancy demanding feeling from poetry! That's not the main thing at all. Radiant words, words of light, full of rhythm and music, that's poetry.
Original text (French)
Original text (French)
Eyes so transparent that through them one sees the lucent soul.
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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