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• The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Fowl, Meals, Spit

  Wallace Fowlie, Arthur Rimbaud (1966). “Rimbaud”

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• No one's serious at seventeen.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Serious, Seventeen

  Arthur Rimbaud, “Novel”

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• Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Sleep, Night, Exile

  Arthur Rimbaud, “The Drunken Boat”

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• You will always be a hyena.

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  Hyenas

  Arthur Rimbaud (2011). “A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat (Second Edition)”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Moon, Sorrow, Heartbreaking

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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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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  Watches, Naked, Ecstasy

  Arthur Rimbaud (1994). “Poems”, Everyman's Library

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• There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Men, Broken, World

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• I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Keys, Sideshows, Possessing

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• It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Night, Silence, Research

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• A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Men, Want

  Arthur Rimbaud (2013). “A Season in Hell”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Hay que ser absolutamente Moderno

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Hay

  Arthur Rimbaud (1995). “Una temporada en el infierno”, p.121, Editorial Montesinos

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• And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Love, God, Kings

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

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  Happiness, Brain, Weakness

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• It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Sea, Voice, Mad

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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?

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Lying, Heart, Blood

  Arthur Rimbaud (1961). “Une Saison en Enfer & Le Bateau Ivre”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• But the problem is to make the soul into a monster

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  Soul, Monsters, Problem

  Arthur Rimbaud (1994). “Poems”, Everyman's Library

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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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  Funny, Beauty, Humor

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.

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  Love, Children, Latin

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• O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Soul, Castles, Flaws

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• True life is elsewhere

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  True Life, Life Is, Elsewhere

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• ...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!

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  Spring, Skeletons, Self

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• Faith assuages, guides, restores.

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  Guides

  Arthur Rimbaud, Louise Varèse (2011). “A Season in Hell and the Drunken Boat”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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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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  Believe, Men, Damnation

  Arthur Rimbaud (1994). “A Season in Hell and Other Poems”, Anvil PressPoetry Limited

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• Misfortune was my god.

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  Misfortunes

  Arthur Rimbaud (1974). “A Season in Hell: The Illuminations”, p.43, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.

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  Dream, Stars, Men

  Arthur Rimbaud, “The Drunken Boat”

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