34 Quotes by Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet who lived from 1854 to 1891. He is considered one of the most influential poets of the 19th century and his work is known for its symbolism and surrealism. Rimbaud's most famous works include "A Season in Hell" and "The Drunken Boat," which explore themes such as identity, desire, and spirituality. He was also known for his tumultuous personal life, which included a relationship with fellow poet Paul Verlaine that ended in Verlaine shooting Rimbaud. Despite his short career as a poet, Rimbaud's work continues to be studied and admired today. (Bio)
Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
A thousand Dreams within me softly burn
Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable. (Meaning)
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Je est un autre. (I is someone else).
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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.
Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent
Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea
Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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 everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
...as for me, I am intact; and I don't care.
You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to me : "Find it !" bending your head - And we'll take a long time to find that creature - Which travels a lot.
The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses
No one's serious at seventeen.
What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
Morality is the weakness of the mind. (Meaning)
I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
I could never throw Love out of the window.
― Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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