Arthur Rimbaud – Départ

Assez vu. La vision s’est rencontrée à tous les airs.
Assez eu. Rumeurs des villes, le soir, et au soleil, et toujours.
Assez connu. Les arrêts de la vie. – Ô Rumeurs et Visions !
Départ dans l’affection et le bruit neufs !

*

Departure

Seen enough. The vision was met with in every air.
Had enough. Sounds of cities, in the evening, and in the sun and always.
Known enough. Life’s halts.—O Sounds and Visions!
Departure in new affection and new noise.

***

Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) – Illuminations

(1886) – Illuminations: Prose poems
(New Directions, 1946) – Translated by Louise Varèse.