I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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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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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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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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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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 alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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