The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI could never throw Love out of the window.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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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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.
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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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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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