Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDStronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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True life is elsewhere.
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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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