I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAnd 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.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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