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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354553" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tu mettrais l'univers entier dans ta ruelle (You Would Take The Whole World To Bed With You)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tu mettrais l'univers entier dans ta ruelle,<br>Femme impure! L'ennui rend ton âme cruelle.<br>Pour exercer tes dents à ce jeu singulier,<br>Il te faut chaque jour un coeur au râtelier.<br>Tes yeux, illuminés ainsi que des boutiques<br>Et des ifs flamboyants dans les fêtes publiques,<br>Usent insolemment d'un pouvoir emprunté,<br>Sans connaître jamais la loi de leur beauté.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Machine aveugle et sourde, en cruautés féconde!<br>Salutaire instrument, buveur du sang du monde,<br>Comment n'as-tu pas honte et comment n'as-tu pas<br>Devant tous les miroirs vu pâlir tes appas?<br>La grandeur de ce mal où tu te crois savante<br>Ne t'a donc jamais fait reculer d'épouvante,<br>Quand la nature, grande en ses desseins cachés<br>De toi se sert, ô femme, ô reine des péchés,<br>— De toi, vil animal, — pour pétrir un génie?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ô fangeuse grandeur! sublime ignominie!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You Would Take the Whole World to Bed with You</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You would take the whole world to bed with you, <br>Impure woman! Ennui makes your soul cruel; <br>To exercise your teeth at this singular game, <br>You need a new heart in the rack each day. <br>Your eyes, brilliant as shop windows <br>Or as blazing lamp-stands at public festivals, <br>Insolently use a borrowed power <br>Without ever knowing the law of their beauty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blind, deaf machine, fecund in cruelties! <br>Remedial instrument, drinker of the world's blood, <br>Why are you not ashamed and why have you not seen <br>In every looking-glass how your charms are fading? <br>Why have you never shrunk at the enormity <br>Of this evil at which you think you are expert, <br>When Nature, resourceful in her hidden designs, <br>Makes use of you, woman, O queen of sin, <br>Of you, vile animal, — to fashion a genius?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O foul magnificence! Sublime ignominy!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by William Aggeler</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You'd Stick the World into Your Bedside Lane </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You'd stick the world into your bedside lane. <br>It's boredom makes you callous to all pain. <br>To exercise your teeth for this strange task, <br>A heart upon a rake, each day, you'd ask. <br>Your eyes lit up like shopfronts, or the trees <br>With lanterns on the night of public sprees, <br>Make insolent misuse of borrowed power <br>And scorn the law of beauty that's their dower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh deaf-and-dumb machine, harm-breeding fool <br>World sucking leech, yet salutary tool! <br>Have you not seen your beauties blanch to pass <br>Before their own reflection in the glass? <br>Before this pain, in which you think you're wise, <br>Does not its greatness shock you with surprise, <br>To think that Nature, deep in projects hidden, <br>Has chosen you, vile creature of the midden, <br>To knead a genius for succeeding time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O sordid grandeur! Infamy sublime!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Roy Campbell</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tyranny of Woman</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aye, you would bed with the whole universe, <br>Lewd woman! Ennui makes your soul perverse; <br>Cruel, you whet your teeth at this weird play, <br>You need a fresh heart in the rack each day. <br>Your eyes blaze like illumined shops or lights <br>Of serried lamps on festive public nights,<br>They use a borrowed puissance haughtily <br>Unconscious of their beauty's tyranny.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blind, deaf machine, geared to increase man's pain, <br>Tool primed to suckle blood from his last vein, <br>Have you no shame when every looking glass <br>Betrays your faded beauties as you pass, <br>When cunning Nature's hidden plans begin <br>To use you, beast! woman, vile queen of sin, <br>To fashion genius in carnality?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O shameless might! Sublime ignominy!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Jacques LeClercq</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You'd Take the Entire Universe to Bed with You</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You'd take the entire universe to bed with you, <br>I think, just out of boredom, you lecherous, idle shrew!<br>You need, to keep your teeth sound, exercise your jaws, <br>Daily, for dinner, some new heart between your paws! <br>Your eyes, all lighted up like shops, like public fairs, <br>How insolent they are! — as if their power were theirs <br>Indeed! — this borrowed power, this Beauty, you direct <br>And use, whose law, however, you do not suspect.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unwholesome instrument for health, O deaf machine <br>And blind, fecund in tortures! — how is it you have not seen, <br>You drinker of the world's blood, your mirrored loveliness <br>Blench and recoil? how is it you feel no shame? confess: <br>Has never, then, this evil's very magnitude <br>Caused you to stagger? — you, who think yourself so shrewd <br>In evil? — seeing how Nature, patient and abstruse — <br>O Woman, Queen of Sins, Vile Animal, — has made use <br>Of you, to mould a genius? — employed you all this time?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O muddy grandeur! — ignominy ironic and sublime!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Edna St. Vincent Millay</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Baudelaire">Charles Baudelaire</a><div class=q>
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Femme impure! L'ennui rend ton âme cruelle.
Pour exercer tes dents à ce jeu singulier,
Il te faut chaque jour un coeur au râtelier.
Tes yeux, illuminés ainsi que des boutiques
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