Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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True life is elsewhere.
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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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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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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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 northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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