Alfred De Musset Since it is your job, wretched poet,Even in times of storm, where the mouth is silent;While the arms talks, and that fictionDisappears like a dream to the sound of the action;Since it is your job to make your soulA prostitute, and that joy or pain,Any application ever to come out of your heart;That's less histrionic, covered with a mask infamousnot go, degrading your thoughts with him,On ignoble trestles put in the pillory;Let no plan, no detour, no one will sail shade.Abandon the elderly without strength and courageThis work spider, and all these shameful sonwhich surrounded the trembling fear pride eyes.Point altar, tripod, point back to the profane!Thy muse, breaking the lute courtesans,grant that vibrate the air without fear of freedom;she walks barefoot, as the truth.
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Happy, thrice happy, the man whose Can be writtenthought the edge of the sword and the sword!Ah! He must despise those foolish dreamerswho when they were steeped in a mire lifelessA vile phantom, a dream, a cold effigystop full of pride, and say: C is enough! Whatthought, alas! When the action starts? Oneback where the other intrepid advances. Informidable aspect of reality,It takes iron, and is preparing to fight;That one frail idol, and that nothing can kill,turns away, veiling his face in inanimate
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Alfred De Musset, Greeting Sterile.
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