I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDMorality is the weakness of the mind.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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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 shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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