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 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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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True life is elsewhere.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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