The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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