Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDBut the problem is to make the soul into a monster
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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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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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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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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True life is elsewhere.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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