What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI shed more tears than God could ever have required.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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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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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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