Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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 found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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 may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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