The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAs I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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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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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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 began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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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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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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