I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDOh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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