Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIs it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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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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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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