Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAs I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement 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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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