True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDMorality is the weakness of the mind.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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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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