Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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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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