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No one's serious at seventeen.

Arthur Rimbaud

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Arthur Rimbaud
Age: 37 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 20
Died: 1891
Died: November 10
Arms Trader
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Poet
World Traveler
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
Seventeen
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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I wrote silences nights I recorded the unnameable.
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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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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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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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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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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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