My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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True life is elsewhere.
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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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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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