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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Arthur Rimbaud

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Arthur Rimbaud
Age: 37 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 20
Died: 1891
Died: November 10
Arms Trader
Explorer
Poet
World Traveler
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
Bestows
Keys
Divine
Knowledge
Love

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Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.
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. . . be absolute moderne.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea
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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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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 turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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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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Misfortune was my god.
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Hay que ser absolutamente Moderno
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.
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I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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