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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI shed more tears than God could ever have required.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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