Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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True life is elsewhere.
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A 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.
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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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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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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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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 am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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