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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses

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Arthur Rimbaud
Age: 37 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 20
Died: 1891
Died: November 10
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Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
Painstaking
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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea
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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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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