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Monelle grew quiet and looked at me:
I came from the night, she said, and I shall return to the night. For I too am a young prostitute.
And Monelle said again:
I pity you, I pity you, my love.
Even…
Contributor:
Marcel Schwob
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1894
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Art today is the only thing constructed, an end in itself, about which no more need be said, such richness vitality meaning wisdom: to understand to see.
To describe a flower—poetry…
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Tristan Tzara
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1917
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Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening
we drink it at midday and morning we drink it at night
we drink and we drink
we shovel a grave in the air there you won’t lie too cramped
A man lives in…
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Paul Celan
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1952
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Hear, O Israel!
Will you never tire of repeating in your prayers:
“Praised be the Eternal, who avengeth my injuries,
Who protecteth my rights, who supporteth me in need,
Who crusheth my foes, who…
Contributor:
André Spire
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1907
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After an absence of many years, I returned to Alsace in November 1856, in response to the invitation of an old friend. During this first and short visit, I was greatly moved in recovering all the…
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Auguste Widal (Daniel Stauben)
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French Republic (Alsace, France)
Date:
1849–1853
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It’s a great question this question of washing. One never can find anyone who can be satisfied with anybody else’s washing. I knew a man once who never as far as anyone could see ever did any washing…
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Gertrude Stein
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1911
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With his asses, male and female,
His woolly sheep and billy goats,
His oxen and his camels
Bearing wineskins on their backs,
With his wives and his handmaids,
His servants and his…
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Edmond Fleg
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1913