Faith assuages, guides, restores.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDLife is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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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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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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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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