Arthur Rimbaud quotes - page 2

I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I'd rather remain silent. (Arthur Rimbaud)
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. View quote
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea. View quote
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences. View quote
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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach. View quote
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Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to me : "Find it !" bending your head - And we'll take a long time to find that creature - Which travels a lot. View quote
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ? View quote
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required. View quote
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile? View quote
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What am I doing here? View quote
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you? (Arthur Rimbaud)
I could never throw Love out of the window. View quote
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You will always be a hyena. View quote
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo. View quote
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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? View quote
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster. View quote
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True life is elsewhere. View quote
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Unhappiness was my god. View quote
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen. View quote
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels. View quote
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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. (Arthur Rimbaud)
Black A, white E, red I, green U, blue O: vowels, Someday I shall recount your latent births. View quote
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Oh my little mistresses, How I hate you! View quote
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Old poetics played a large part in my alchemy of the word. View quote
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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. View quote
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