Sensation | Arthur Rimbaud, 1870
Alberto Giacometti – Portrait of Rimbaud 1963
In the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths,
And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat:
Daydreaming I will feel the coolness on my feet.
I will let the wind bathe my bare head.
I will not speak, I will have no thoughts:
But infinite love will mount in my soul;
And I will go far, far off, like a gypsy,
Through the country side-joyous as if with a woman.
Arthur Rimbaud, Sensation, 1870
tr. Wallace Fowlie
