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Arthur Rimbaud
Age: 37 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 20
Died: 1891
Died: November 10
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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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No one's serious at seventeen.
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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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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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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align To whisper - both of us - in ecstasy!
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea
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I wrote silences nights I recorded the unnameable.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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. . . be absolute moderne.
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