The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDRomanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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 may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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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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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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