...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage. If the old imbeciles hadn’t discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldn’t have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors!
Je est un autre. (I is someone else). - Arthur Rimbaud
Je est un autre. (I is someone else).
- Arthur Rimbaud
The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable. - Arthur Rimbaud
The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’. - Arthur Rimbaud
True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. - Arthur Rimbaud
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. - Arthur Rimbaud
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. - Arthur Rimbaud
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun. - Arthur Rimbaud
Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal. - Arthur Rimbaud
I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
Come from forever, and you will go everywhere. - Arthur Rimbaud
Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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