Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
ARTHUR RIMBAUDO seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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True life is elsewhere.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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