Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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 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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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