I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWhose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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