Arthur Rimbaud: Frasi in inglese (pagina 2)

“Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.”

“What am I doing here?”

“Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.”

“But the problem is to make the soul into a monster”

“Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.”

“I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.”

“Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade?”

“As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.”

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

“Morality is the weakness of the mind.”

“You will always be a hyena.”

“Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?”

“But, true, I’ve wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter.”

“The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.”

“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?”

“My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?”

“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.”

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

“It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.”