Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
ARTHUR RIMBAUDBut the problem is to make the soul into a monster
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of 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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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