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Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already.

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A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

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I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

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I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.

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Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.

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Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

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Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

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