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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
Arms Trader
Explorer
Poet
World Traveler
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
Senses
Poet
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Long
Derangement
Painstaking
Seer
Seers
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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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 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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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