I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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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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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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