I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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