I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDOh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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 for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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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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