It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDA thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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 went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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