Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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