The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDCome from forever, and you will go everywhere.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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