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Quotes from Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat) — Arthur Rimbaud

1854–1891 France

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Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves.

Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat) (1871)

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

Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat) (1871)

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

Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat) (1871)

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

Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat) (1871)

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?

Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat) (1871)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arthur Rimbaud (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.