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.
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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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True life is elsewhere.
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