But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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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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