One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIs it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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