One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDA thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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