Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDGenius is the recovery of childhood at will.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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