Poet Arthur Rimbaud is born in Charleville, France.

He completed the vast majority of his poetry before the age of 20.

It was wild, gorgeous stuff. As if he had suddenly torn away the dusty shutters that split and narrowed our vision!

Unfortunately, it dies gruesomely in translation. Read it in French. It will poke little holes in everything.

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