I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIs it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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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