Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAs for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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 understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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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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