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-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.

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
Asleep
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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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I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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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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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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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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