Pierre Albert-Birot Quotes

#1. Oh you dear companions
Electric bells of the stations song of the reapers
Butcher's sleigh regiment of unnumbered streets
Cavalry of bridges nights livid with alcohol
The cities I've seen lived like mad women
(The Voyager)

Pierre Albert-Birot

#2. If anything can be said in prose, then poetry should be saved for saying nothing.

Pierre Albert-Birot

#3. Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stations
We crossed cities that turn-tabled all day
And vomited at night the sunshine of the day ("The Voyager")

Pierre Albert-Birot

#4. The City is free of sin
The snow has given it absolution
A man who slips
A horse that falls
Oh no, the city is in a nightgown

Pierre Albert-Birot

#5. And we left the light
for the night of the street

Pierre Albert-Birot

#6. Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]
It's me
And who is the poet writing this poem?
That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

Pierre Albert-Birot

#7. Do you remember the suburbs and the plaintive flock of landscapes
The cypress trees projected their shadows under the moon
That night when as summer waned I listened
To a languorous bird forever wroth
And the eternal noise of a river wide and dark
(The Voyager)

Pierre Albert-Birot