Jean-Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud citáty

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„Věčnost je slunce smíšené s mořem.“

„Prolil jsem více slz, nežli by po mě Bůh kdy mohl požadovat.“

„Tisíce snů ve mně tiše hoří.“

„Rozumím, ale protože nevím, jak se vyjádřit aniž bych použil pohanských slov, raději budu mlčet.“

„Tento život je jediný! Naštěstí!“

„Věřím v peklo, jelikož se v něm nacházím!“

„Hořkou závist a hloupý obdiv nahradí člověk smírným porozuměním, prací všech pro všechny.“

„Jednou večer jsem si posadil krásu na klín. - A zdála se mi hořká.“

„Tím, že jsem příliš citlivý, jsem promarnil svůj život.“

„Jediný na čem opravdu záleží je psaní samotný. Všechno ostatní je literatura.“

„Kněží, profesoři, učitelé, mýlíte se, vydáváte-li mne do rukou spravedlnosti. Nikdy jsem nepatřil k tomuto lidu; nikdy jsem nebyl křesťan; jsem z kmene, který zpíval na mučidlech; nechápu zákony; nemám smysl pro mravnost; jsem hovado; jste na omylu.“

„Neubližuj, ale když už to uděláš, tak to udělej elegantně. Neurážej svoje oběti tím, že je ti to potom líto.“

„Čí vlídná náruč, jaká úžasná chvíle mi vrátí tuto krajinu, odkud přichází všechno mé snění i každý můj sotva slyšitelný záchvěv vzrušení?“

“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.”

“In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.”

“I have bathed in the Poem
Of the Sea…
Devouring the green azures.”

“The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea”

“Is it possible to become ecstatic amid destruction, rejuvenate oneself through cruelty?”

“No one's serious at seventeen,
When lindens line the promenades”

“I have embraced the summer dawn.”

“My sad heart foams at the stern.”

“I have seen the sunset, stained with mystic horrors,
Illumine the rolling waves with long purple forms,
Like actors in ancient plays.”

“Black A, white E, red I, green U, blue O: vowels,
Someday I shall recount your latent births.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

“I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.”

“Oh my little mistresses,
How I hate you!”

“Once, I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.”

“Old poetics played a large part in my alchemy of the word.”

“O seasons, O castles,
What soul is without flaws?”

“Sweeter than apples to children
The green water spurted through my pine-wood hull.”

“I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses.”

“I! I who fashioned myself a sorcerer or an angel, who dispensed with all morality, I have come back to earth.”

“Love is to be reinvented, that is clear.”

“I have seen starry archipelagoes! and islands
Whose raving skies are opened to the voyager:
Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep, in exile,
A million golden birds, O future Vigor?”