I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDTrue alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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