Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
ARTHUR RIMBAUDStronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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 may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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