It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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