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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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True life is elsewhere.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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