Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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