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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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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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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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 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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True life is elsewhere.
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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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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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Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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 believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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