The poem, this prolonged hesitation between sound and meaning. (Paul Valéry)

Georges Pompidou / Anthology of French poetry.
For fifty years I leaf through this wonderful collection of poems selected by this man of great culture that was our President G.Pompidou.
Jy have found and will always end up with a pleasure all these poems learned during my schooling and other random read dun author collections. It also reminded me the Lagarde and Michard my secondary studies and the study of poets in particular.
François Villon resumed to music by Georges Brassens for his "Ballad of the Mothers of Time" opens this homecoming.
And Joachim du Bellay I oftentimes recites the verses of "Happy like Ulysses," and Pierre Ronsard that other of the Pleiades with "Mignonne will see if the rose."
All are there and i smiled rereading the "Marquise stances" by Pierre Corneille also included music by Brassens.
Obviously, one can not pass under silence and Lafontaine his fables, Vigny and "Death of the Wolf," Lamartine and "Lake" specious Hugo, the "Nights" de Musset, the "Flowers of Evil" by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud and so many others discovered during reading dune premium.
A course which my bedside book memory needs to find its bearings.
"Jaime the game, love, books, music,
The city and the countryside, everything; It nest nothing
That is my highest good
Completion dark pleasure of a melancholy heart.
Jean de La Fontaine