I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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