Arthur Rimbaud Quotes

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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?

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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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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.

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I went out under the sky, Muse! And I was your vassal.

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O seasons, O châteaux,
What soul is without flaws?

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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.

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I have seen the sunset, stained with mystic horrors,
Illumine the rolling waves with long purple forms,
Like actors in ancient plays.

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Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves.

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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

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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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I long for Europe of the ancient parapets.

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I! I who fashioned myself a sorcerer or an angel, who dispensed with all morality, I have come back to earth.

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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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Sweeter than apples to children
The green water spurted through my pine-wood hull.

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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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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 found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.

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