Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDYou feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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