In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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 wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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 Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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