Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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