But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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True life is elsewhere.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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