Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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J'allais sous le ciel, Muse! et j'étais ton féal.
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J'ai embrassé l'aube d'été.
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I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has none, he gives it none. A language must be found…of the soul, for the soul and will include everything: perfumes, sounds colors, thought grappling with thought.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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Plus léger qu'un bouchon j'ai dansé sur les flots.
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Je me suis baigné dans le PoèmeDe la Mer...Dévorant les azurs verts.
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J'ai vu des archipels sidéraux! et des îlesDont les cieux délirants sont ouverts au vogueur:Est-ce en ces nuits sans fond que tu dors et t'exiles,Million d'oiseaux d'or, ô future Vigueur ?
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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Je est un autre.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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.
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Unhappiness was my god.
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J'ai vu le soleil bas, taché d'horreurs mystiques,Illuminant de longs figements violets,Pareils à des acteurs de drames très-antiques.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures.
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...as for me, I am intact; and I don't care.
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Jadis, si je me souviens bien, ma vie était un festin où s'ouvraient tous les coeurs, où tous les vins coulaient.
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Il pleut doucement sur la ville.
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Un soir, j'ai assis la Beauté sur mes genoux. - Et je l'ai trouvée amère. - Et je l'ai injuriée.
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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!