The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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