Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
ARTHUR RIMBAUDEternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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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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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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