As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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