It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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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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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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