I could never throw Love out of the window.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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