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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDTo 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?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
-
-
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
Faith assuages, guides, restores.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
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 RIMBAUD -
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?
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD