Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDRomanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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