I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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 believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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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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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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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