I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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