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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIs it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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True life is elsewhere.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
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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 Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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 turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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