What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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