O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDStronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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