Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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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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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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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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