It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDA thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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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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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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