Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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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 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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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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 may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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