I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDOne evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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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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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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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