Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDA man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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 may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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