As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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