As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe 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.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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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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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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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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