Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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The 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 have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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True life is elsewhere.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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