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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAnd again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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 shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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And 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.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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?
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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