I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDGenius is the recovery of childhood at will.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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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.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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