My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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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 am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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