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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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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Old poetics played a large part in my alchemy of the word.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Once, I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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 went out under the sky, Muse! And I was your vassal.
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Sweeter than the flesh of tart apples to children, the green water penetrates my wooden hull.
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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 have seen the sun set, stained with mystic horrors, illuminating the long violet [blood-] clots, just like actors in very ancient plays.
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I have bathed in the Poem of the Sea, steeped in stars, and milky, devouring the green azures.
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Black A, white E, red I, green U, blue O: vowels,
Someday I shall recount your latent births.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once they get that, love, beauty, everything else goes out the window. All they have left is cold disdain; that's what marriages live on nowadays. Sometimes I see women who ought to be happy, with whom I could have found companionship, already swallowed up by brutes with as much feeling as an old log....
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I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses.
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I long for Europe of the ancient parapets.
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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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Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves.
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One evening, I sat Beauty in my lap.—And I found her bitter.—And I cursed her.
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I have seen starry archipelagos! And islands
Whose raving skies are opened to the voyager:
Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep, in exile,
A million golden birds, O future Vigor?
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I'd rather remain silent
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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I was walking along, hands in holey pockets; my overcoat also was entering the realms of the ideal.
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It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.
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Born:
October 20, 1854
Died:
November 10, 1891
(aged 37)
Bio:
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet born in Charleville, Ardennes. He influenced modern literature and arts, and prefigured surrealism.
Known for:
Illuminations (1886)
A Season in Hell (1873)
Rimbaud, Complete Works, Selected Letters
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