My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWhat an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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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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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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