Illuminations
Arthur Rimbaud
Top 10 Best Quotes
“True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.”
“I shed more tears than God could ever have required.”
“What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?”
“I have stretched ropes from bell-tower to bell-tower; garlands from window to window; chains of gold from star to star, and I dance.”
“Is it possible to become ecstatic amid destruction, rejuvenate oneself through cruelty?”
“Against snow, a tall Beautiful Being. Whistlings of death and circles of muffled music make this adored body rise, swell and tremble like a ghost; scarlet and black wounds open in the magnificent flesh.”
“What will happen to the world when you leave it? Nothing, in any case, will remain of what is now visible.”
“cement in bold relief,—far underground. I lean my elbows on the table, and the lamp lights brightly the newspapers I am fool enough to re-read, and the absurd books.”
“Magical flowers were humming. The turf slopes cradled *him.* Beasts of a fabulous elegance were circulating. Storm clouds were piling up on the rising sea made of an eternity of hot tears.”
“I’m the Saint praying on a balcony - like peaceful beasts grazing along the Sea of Palestine. I’m the scholar in a plain reading chair. Branches and rain beat the library windows. I’m the pedestrian on the high road through the stunted woods; the sound of floodgates drowns out my footsteps. I stare at the melancholy wash of another golden sunset... The path is harsh. The hillocks are weed. The air is still. How far we are from birds and streams. The end of the world must be just ahead.”
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sentences, crying, writing, creativity, melancholy, art
