Category: french
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“The Art of Poetry [an excerpt]” by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636 – 1711)
An Excerpt from a #Poem: “…One perfect whole, of all the pieces join’d. Keep your subject close, in all you say; Nor for a sounding Sentence ever stray.”
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“Mirèio” by Frédéric Mistral (1830 – 1914)
“…Yet on that ravaged tree thou savest oft Some little branch inviolate aloft, Tender and airy up against the blue, Which the rude spoiler cannot win unto: Only the birds shall come and banquet there, When, at St. Magdalene’s, the fruit is fair…”
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“The Head” by Blaise Cendrars (1916 – 1961)
“The Head” by Blaise Cendrars The guillotine is the masterpiece of plastic art Its click Creates perpetual motion Everyone knows about Christopher Columbus’ egg Which was a flat egg, a fixed egg, the egg of an inventor Archipenko’s sculpture is the first ovoidal egg Held in intense equilibrium Like an immobile top On its animated…
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