Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
ARTHUR RIMBAUDTrue life is elsewhere.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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 was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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 turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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