What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAs I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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 Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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 am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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True life is elsewhere.
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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