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?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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