I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI shed more tears than God could ever have required.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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 only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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True life is elsewhere.
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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 found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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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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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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