Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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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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