A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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True life is elsewhere.
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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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