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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDTrue alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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And 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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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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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