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.
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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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True life is elsewhere.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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 understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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