Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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