I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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