Feathers Quote by Arthur Rimbaud

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

Arthur Rimbaud

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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

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“My turn now. The story of one of my insanities. For a long time I boasted that I was master of all possible landscapes-- and I thought the great figures of modern painting and poetry were laughable. What I liked were: absurd paintings, pictures over doorways, stage sets, carnival backdrops, billboards, bright-colored prints, old-fashioned literature, church Latin, erotic books full…

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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.

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“Delivered to oblivion...growing and flowering with incense and weeds to the sullen whine of nasty flies... I loved deserts, burnt out orchards, faded boutiques...I…

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“I On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping White Ophelia floats like a great lily; Floats very slowly, lying in her long veils... - In the far-off woods you can hear them sound the mort. For more than a thousand years sad Ophelia Has passed, a white phantom, down the long black river. For more than a…

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

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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster

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Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't…

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Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don't know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer…

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

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What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!

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A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or…

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Stefan: "Indian with a dot, not a feather.

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All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never named him. Had called him "my parrot" all these years. "My parrot." "Love you. "Love you." Did the dogs get him? Or did he get the message - that she said, "My parrot" and he…

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Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

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Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and…

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I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least…

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The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light…

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I've been doing 'The Bachelor' long enough that I don't really care whose feathers I ruffle and how many waves I cause, because my…

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“Featherweight by Suzy Kassem One evening, I sat by the ocean and questioned the moon about my destiny. I revealed to it that I was beginning to feel smaller compared to others, Because the more secrets of the universe I would unlock, The smaller in size I became. I didn't understand why I wasn't feeling larger instead of smaller. I…

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“Birds, unlike us, lack countenance. But they make us smile when they connecting the sky with their dazzling feathers. They amaze us with how…

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I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power…

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Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it…

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