The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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