But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAs for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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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.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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