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.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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True life is elsewhere.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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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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 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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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