One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDStronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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