My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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
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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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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.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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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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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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True life is elsewhere.
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