Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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