My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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 am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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