Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
ARTHUR RIMBAUDOne evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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 an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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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 understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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