I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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True life is elsewhere.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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 could never throw Love out of the window.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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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