Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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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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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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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 saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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True life is elsewhere.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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