One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIt began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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