It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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