My Face

"When I was a child,
my vision was refined in certain skies;
my face is the product of every nuance.
All Phenomena were aroused.
At present, the eternal inflections of the moment
and the infinity of mathematics hunt me over this earth
where I experience all civil successes,
respected by strange childhood and devouring affections.

I envisage a war, of justice or strength
of a logic beyond all imagining.
It is as simple as a musical phrase."

-Arthur Rimbaud, "War" (tr. P. Schmidt)