True life is elsewhere.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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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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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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