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"If I am lucky, the picture will paint itself."
"But you were brushing out your hair and singing to yourself. And, for a moment, I think I saw what those artists saw — someone half in love with herself and half in love with the world."
"Why isn't there more meat on this chicken It's as if the damned thing began starving itself once it knew what the future had in store for it Is this what they mean by "organic""
"Mon triste coeur bave Ă la poupe."
"A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu: voyelles, Je dirai quelque jour vos naissances latentes !"
"Elle est retrouvée, Quoi ? — L'Éternité. C'est la mer allée Avec le soleil."
"O saisons, ô châteaux, Quelle âme est sans défauts ?"
"J'ai embrassé l'aube d'été."
"Il pleut doucement sur la ville."
"Plus léger qu'un bouchon j'ai dansé sur les flots."
"Plus douce qu'aux enfants la chair des pommes sures, L'eau verte pénétra ma coque de sapin."
"Je me suis baigné dans le Poème De la Mer... Dévorant les azurs verts."
"J'ai vu le soleil bas, taché d'horreurs mystiques, Illuminant de longs figements violets, Pareils à des acteurs de drames très-antiques."
"J'ai vu des archipels sidéraux! et des îles Dont les cieux délirants sont ouverts au vogueur: Est-ce en ces nuits sans fond que tu dors et t'exiles, Million d'oiseaux d'or, ô future Vigueur ?"
"Un soir, j'ai assis la Beauté sur mes genoux. - Et je l'ai trouvée amère. - Et je l'ai injuriée."
"Ă” mes petites amoureuses, Que je vous hais !"
"La vie est la farce Ă mener par tous."
"Jadis, si je me souviens bien, ma vie était un festin où s'ouvraient tous les coeurs, où tous les vins coulaient."
"Je suis esclave de mon baptĂŞme."
"La vieillerie poétique avait une bonne part dans mon alchimie du verbe."
"L'amour est à réinventer, on le sait."
"Moi ! moi qui me suis dit mage ou ange, dispensé de toute morale, je suis rendu au sol."
"Il faut ĂŞtre absolument moderne."
"Je me crois en enfer, donc j'y suis."
"Je est un autre."
"Je dis qu'il faut être voyant, se faire voyant. Le poète se fait voyant par un long, immense et raisonné dérèglement de tous les sens."
"Anna Margolin was greatly influenced by Baudelaire, Verlaine, and Rimbaud; among the Germans, by Else Lasker-SchĂĽler and Rainer Maria Rilke; and among the Yiddish poets, by Itsik Manger and Avrom Sutzkever."
"What Rimbaud did for language, and not merely for poetry, is only beginning to be understood. And this more by readers than by writers, I feel. At least, in our country. Nearly all the modern French poets have been influenced by him. Indeed, one might say that contemporary French poetry owes everything to Rimbaud. Thus far, however, none have gone beyond him — in daring or invention."
"Je parvins à faire s'évanouir dans mon esprit toute l'espérance humaine."
"J'allais sous le ciel, Muse! et j'étais ton féal."
"Mon auberge était à la Grande-Ourse. Mes étoiles au ciel avaient un doux frou-frou."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.