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I wrote silences nights I recorded the unnameable.

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
Wrote
Silence
Night
Unnameable
Silences
Recorded
Nights

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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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Je est un autre. (I is someone else).
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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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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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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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 shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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