The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIn the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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True life is elsewhere.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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