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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDMy wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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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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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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 could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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