Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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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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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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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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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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