I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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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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