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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAs I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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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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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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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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True life is elsewhere.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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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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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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