As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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