I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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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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.
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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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