Joë Bousquet Professions : Poet Born : March 19, 1897 Died : September 28, 1950 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Joë Bousquet An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo. Joë Bousquet echoes body wind My wound existed before me; Joë Bousquet wounds born Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks. Joë Bousquet reminiscing sea night A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything. Joë Bousquet silence stars wind I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss. Joë Bousquet saws sky blood Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
