But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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