Tell me, enigmatic man, whom do you love best? Your father, your mother, your sister, or your brother?
"I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother."
Your friends, then?
"You use a word that until now has had no meaning for me."
Your country?
"I am ignorant of the latitude in which it is situated."
Then Beauty?
"Her I would love willingly, goddess and immortal."
Gold?
"I hate it as you hate your God."
What, then, extraordinary stranger, do you love?
"I love the clouds the clouds that pass yonder the marvelous clouds."
The Stranger
Charles Baudelaire
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Poem topics: I love you, beauty, god, country, stranger, gold, ignorant, marvelous, brother, father, hate, mother, sister, love, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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