As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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 went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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