Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDGenius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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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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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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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 a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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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 believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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