I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAs I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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True life is elsewhere.
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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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