I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDYet 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.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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 only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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True life is elsewhere.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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