Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came
And he pushed
And they flew.
O mouths humanity seeks a new language
Beyond the reach of grammarians.
And now comes the summer of violence
And my youth is as dead as the springtime
O Sun it is the time of fiery Reason.
We mean to explore kindness and its enormous silences.
You see before you a man in his right mind
Worldly-wise and with access to death
Having tested the sorrow of love and its ecstasies
Having sometimes even astonished the professors
Good with languages
Having travelled a great deal
Having seen battle in the Artillery and the Infantry
Wounded in the head trepanned under chloroform
Having lost my best friends in the butchery
As much of antiquity and modernity as can be known I know
We hurry since everything hurries
And I shall never not return
Memories are all archaic horns
Silenced by the wind.
I used to walk by the river
An old book under my arm
The river is the same as pain
It elapses mindlessly
And when will the week be over
One day
One day I waited for myself
I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came
So I could know just who I am
I who know others
And the single string of the marine trumpets.
And for your eyes my life takes poison slowly.
I've made a song for the poorly loved
And songs for everything I grieved
For unaccompanied slave and shark,
For queens who've gone into the dark.
Farewell, false love, I took you for
The woman that I lost last year
Forever as I think:
I loved her but I will not see
Her any more in Germany.
O Milky Way, sister in whiteness
To Canaan's rivers and the bright
Bodies of lovers drowned,
Can we follow toilsomely
Your path to other nebulae?
Nor days nor any time detain.
Time past or any love
Cannot come again.
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