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Letter "T" » thief
«The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it, he puts it to the test, he learns it. As soon as he has learned it, he must cultivate it! I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet becomes a seer through a long, immense, and reasoned derangement of all the senses. All shapes of love suffering, madness. He searches himself, he exhausts all poisons in himself, to keep only the quintessences. Ineffable torture where he needs all his faith, all his superhuman strength, where he becomes among all men the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed one--and the supreme Scholar! For he reaches the unknown! ....So the poet is actually a thief of Fire!»
Author: Arthur Rimbaud
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Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Knowledge,
Senses
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Keywords:
accursed,
criminal,
cultivate,
derangement,
exhausts,
First test,
Great Fire,
immense,
ineffable,
inspect,
Keep the Faith,
learns,
patient,
poisons,
puts,
quintessence,
reaches,
reasoned,
scholar,
searches,
seer,
senses,
shapes,
superhuman,
supreme,
the senses,
The test,
thief,
torture
«The great thieves lead away the little thief»
«Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.»
«Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poet)
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Keywords:
bankrupt,
bankrupts,
critic,
exceptions,
malignant,
reviewer,
reviewers,
taker,
takers,
thief,
unsuccessful
«The moon's an arrant thief,And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
arrant,
fire,
moon,
pale,
pales,
palest,
paling,
snatches,
snatching,
sun,
The Moon,
The Sun,
thief
«The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief»
«The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief»
«The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try»
«Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.»
«The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.»