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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
Explorer
Poet
World Traveler
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
Seventeen
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I wrote silences nights I recorded the unnameable.
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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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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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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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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Je est un autre. (I is someone else).
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn
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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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