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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAnd from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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 turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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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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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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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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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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