Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIt began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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True life is elsewhere.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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