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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDGenius is the recovery of childhood at will.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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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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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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 shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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True life is elsewhere.
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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