Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWhat is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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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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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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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 which everyone has to perform.
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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