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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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Childhood Discover Genius
The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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Kiss Light Rise Sea
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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Dance Gold Myself Rope Star Window
What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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Courage Death Love Myself Old
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Appearance Children Fashion Greatness
The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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Hard Time Philosophy Suffering Wisdom
To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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Admire Blood Evil Heart Image Monster Myself
True life is elsewhere.
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Life One Liner True
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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Dreams Man Myself Poem Sea Time
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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Acceptance Glory Night Patience Reality Strength Tender
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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Himself Journey Poet Poison Travel
The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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Affection Burn Delight Earth Heart Life Love Sun
As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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Care Myself Philosophy
Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Forever Nature Sea Sun
And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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Faith God Greatness Love Man Philosophy
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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Myself Night Silence Stand Word World Writing

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

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