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!
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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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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I 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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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