Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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