A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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True life is elsewhere.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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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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