Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDEternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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 am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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