True life is elsewhere.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAnd from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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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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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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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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