I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Yet 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.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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 northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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