True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDCome from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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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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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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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