It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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