L'absurdité grandit comme une fleur fatale
Dans le terreau des sens, des coeurs et des cerveaux;
En vain tonnent, là-bas, les prodiges nouveaux;
Nous, nous restons croupir dans la raison natale.

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Émile Adolphe Gustave Verhaere was a Belgian poet and art critic who wrote in the French language.

He was one of the founders of the school of Symbolism and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature on six occasions.