Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
ARTHUR RIMBAUDEternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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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.
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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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 am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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True life is elsewhere.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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