In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDOnce, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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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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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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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.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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