I Promise to Be Good Quotes

“Come back, come back, dear friend, only friend, come back. I promise to be good.
If I was short with you, I was either kidding or just being stubborn; I regret all this more than I can express. Come back and all is forgotten. It is unbearable to think you took my joke seriously. I have been crying for two days straight. Come back. Be brave, dear friend. All is not lost. You only need to come back. We will live here once again, bravely, patiently. I’m begging you. You know it is for your own good. Come back, all of your things are here. I hope you now know that our last conversation wasn’t real. That awful moment. But you, when I waved to you to get off the boat, why didn’t you come? To have lived together for two years and to have come to that! What will you do? If you don’t want to come back here, would you want me to come to you?

Yes, I was wrong.

Tell me you haven’t forgotten me.

You couldn’t.

I always have you with me.

Listen, tell me: should we not live together anymore?
Be brave. Write immediately.
I can’t stay here much longer.
Listen to your heart.
Now, tell me if I should come join you.
My life is yours.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud

“All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud

“Come back, come back, dear friend, only friend, come back. I promise to be good.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud

“I am unknown: so what?
This verses believe; they love; they hope: that's enough.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud

“But today I would suggest you ponder these verses from Ecclesiastes: “And he would have seven flights of madness in his soul, who, having hung his clothes beneath the sun, would groan at the hour of rain,”
― Arthur Rimbaud, I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud

“turn your face towards the lances of rain, the soul towards ancient wisdom. And”
― Arthur Rimbaud, I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud