Arthur Rimbaud Quotes

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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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Sweeter than the flesh of tart apples to children, the green water penetrates my wooden hull.

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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.

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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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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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At dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities.

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A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels, some day I will tell of the births that may be yours. I, purples, coughed-up blood, laughter of beautiful lips in anger or penitent drunkennesses.

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He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death.

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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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My tavern was the Big Bear.
My stars in the sky rustled softly.

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Old poetics played a large part in my alchemy of the word.

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O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.

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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 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 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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.

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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life...

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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.

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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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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

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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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It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.

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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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Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don't know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.

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