/lit/ - Literature

In two days starts National Poetry Month, will you do the National Poetry Challenge.
>For the 30 days in the month of April, write at least one poem every day.
Take the challenge, if you dare.

Books that will help me cope with being a 4w5 INFP?

There can only be one.

>>14376673
No.

>>14292485
Arthur Rimbaud

I can only write poetry with iambs and trochees

A while back, if I remember right, my life was one long party where all hearts were open wide, where all wines kept flowing.

One night, I sat Beauty down on my lap.—And I found her galling.—And I roughed her up.

I armed myself against justice.

I ran away. O witches, O misery, O hatred, my treasure's been turned over to you!

I managed to make every trace of human hope vanish from my mind. I pounced on every joy like a ferocious animal eager to strangle it.

I called for executioners so that, while dying, I could bite the butts of their rifles. I called for plagues to choke me with sand, with blood. Bad luck was my god. I stretched out in the muck. I dried myself in the air of crime. And I played tricks on insanity.

And Spring brought me the frightening laugh of the idiot.

So, just recently, when I found myself on the brink of the final squawk! it dawned on me to look again for the key to that ancient party where I might find my appetite once more.

Charity is that key.—This inspiration proves I was dreaming!

"You'll always be a hyena etc. . . ," yells the devil, who'd crowned me with such pretty poppies. "Deserve death with all your appetites, your selfishness, and all the capital sins!"

Ah! I've been through too much:-But, sweet Satan, I beg of you, a less blazing eye! and while waiting for the new little cowardly gestures yet to come, since you like an absence of descriptive or didactic skills in a writer, let me rip out these few ghastly pages from my notebook of the damned.

what is the best translation of Illuminations?

Who wrote the best obscene poems in literary history?

>over 20
>still hasn't written any masterpieces

What's taking so long, anon?

One of the most based individuals to ever grace this earth. Said 'fuck this' to all of his flamboyant faggotry and went to go make some bread.

Post other fleeting talents.

Whats a good translation of his poems?

Why is this guy so great again?

I'm trying to read Illuminations but sometimes I dont undertand what the fuck is this qt trying to say
Do I need to smoke opium to get Illuminations?
Did I get meme'd (once again)?
Season in hell was pretty straigh forward, I enjoyed it a lot, pls help

Chaotic Evil

What's the purpose of writing poems in 2015?

I think this is just ridiculous.