Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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