It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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True life is elsewhere.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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