One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDTrue alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
-
-
The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
True life is elsewhere.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD