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Arthur Rimbaud
Age: 37 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 20
Died: 1891
Died: November 10
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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?
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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I wrote silences nights I recorded the unnameable.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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. . . be absolute moderne.
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I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
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Hay que ser absolutamente Moderno
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea
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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 am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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