But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIt was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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