Arthur Rimbaud on journey
Arthur Rimbaud63 quotes“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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Morality is the weakness of the mind.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud 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.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud
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