One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI 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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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