Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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 could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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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 man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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