I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDOnly divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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True life is elsewhere.
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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 shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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 am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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