Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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