Albert Samain - Quotation

Poet, born in Lille, N France. He worked on the Mercure de France, then for the Revue des deux mondes. A Parnassian who had felt the influence of the Symbolists, he expressed gracefully a precise and picturesque world in the two volumes published during his lifetime, Au Jardin de l'infante (1893) and Aux Flancs du vase (1898). Le Chariot d'Or was published in 1901, a year after his death from tuberculosis, and a drama, Polyphème, in 1904.

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Albert Victor Samain (April 3, 1858 — August 18, 1900) was a French poet and writer of the Symbolist school.

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Je rêve de vers doux et d'intimes ramages, De vers à frôler l'âme ainsi que des plumages, De vers blonds où le sens fluide se délie Comme sous l'eau la chevelure d'Ophélie, De vers silencieux, et sans rythme et sans trame Où la rime sans bruit glisse comme une rame, De vers d'une ancienne étoffe, exténuée, Impalpable comme le son et la nuée, De vers de soir d'automne ensorcelant les heures Au rite féminin des syllabes mineures.

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