Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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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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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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