In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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 understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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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 found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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True life is elsewhere.
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