One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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True life is elsewhere.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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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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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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