Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDEternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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 believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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