O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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 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.
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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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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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