O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDEternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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