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 RIMBAUDOne evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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