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?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIt is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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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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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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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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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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