The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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