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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
Recorded
Nights
Wrote
Silence
Night
Unnameable
Silences

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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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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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-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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Je est un autre. (I is someone else).
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