Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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 understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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