The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe 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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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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