I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDA thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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