The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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 could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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