Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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 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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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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