And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDOnly divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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True life is elsewhere.
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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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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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