Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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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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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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 wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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 may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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