Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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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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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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