Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
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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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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