You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIdle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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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 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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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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