True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDEternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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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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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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