It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI could never throw Love out of the window.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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