I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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 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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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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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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