It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWeakness 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.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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 may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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