I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDMorality is the weakness of the mind.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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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 shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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