And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDTrue life is elsewhere.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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True life is elsewhere.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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.
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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