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 RIMBAUDEternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor 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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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