The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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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 wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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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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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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