Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDStronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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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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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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 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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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