True life is elsewhere.
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.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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 seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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