You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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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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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
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