The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAnd 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.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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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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