The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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
-
-
And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
Morality is the weakness of the mind.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD