The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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