Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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