One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDMorality is the weakness of the mind.
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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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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.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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