Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves. — Arthur Rimbaud
Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves.
In the original French
Plus léger qu'un bouchon j'ai dansé sur les flots.
The Drunken Boat · 1871
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Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le bateau ivre/The Drunken Boat." Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition, translated by Wallace Fowlie. University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Original citation
Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le Bateau Ivre [The Drunken Boat]." Les Poetes Maudits, edited by Paul Verlaine. Paris, 1884.