Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDBut the problem is to make the soul into a monster
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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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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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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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 found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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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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