I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI could never throw Love out of the window.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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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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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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True life is elsewhere.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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