To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDMy wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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True life is elsewhere.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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