But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDEternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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True life is elsewhere.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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