I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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 from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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