The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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