Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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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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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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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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True life is elsewhere.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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