It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDYour memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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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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