What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDYet 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.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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 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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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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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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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