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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDEternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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 could never throw Love out of the window.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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