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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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