A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDBut, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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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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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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True life is elsewhere.
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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 the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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