True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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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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True life is elsewhere.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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