I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDBut, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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 only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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