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 RIMBAUDI could never throw Love out of the window.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Eternity is the sun mixed with 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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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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 am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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 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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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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