To better declaim them afterwards, here is a selection of iconic love poems to read!
Because they make a unique and marvelous use of the language… Because they spread in verses and prose the ardor and sincerity of love… Because they disclose images which become forever engraved in our mind… Icon-Icon has selected iconic love poems to read – to better share them or recite them afterwards to our loved ones!
What could be more iconic than the poems of two poets who lived a love story just as intense as it was tumultuous? The complete works of one of the greatest poets in the world – the poetry of Paul Verlaine puts Paris, love, punishment, evils and life in gripping verses, inevitably legendary!
His companion for a while — Arthur Rimbaud! The acme of the figure of the poet who knew how to distil in verses among the most beautiful of the French language, the torments of the human condition.
The ultimate poet of love ? Paul Eluard! This collection here which gathers some of the poet’s most beautiful verses, alternately Dadaist and Surrealist. These most beautiful verses which were written during the last ten years of his life…
A French President in love…? Collection of epistolary exchanges between François Mitterrand and Anne Pingeot – these letters distill deep feelings on the part of a secret and mysterious statesman.
Finally, it is to the poetic work of Jorge Luis Borges that we pay the most attention.
A volume of poetry, Poèmes d’Amour, in which Silvia Baron Supervielle, in the introduction, notes: “Almost all of Borges’ volumes contain at least one love poem. This flame – obscure marvel – which generally lights only a few lines at the end of the poem, can go unnoticed. After listing themes dear to him, he raises his voice briefly as if announcing a sentence. The reader stops on these words which are written simply, painfully and happily at the same time. Is happiness painful? Borges lets us understand that, when he is torn and happy, he suffers from love like all men.”
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