What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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True life is elsewhere.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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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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