Famous Quotes by Arthur Rimbaud

  • The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses.... More
  • I is another. More
  • There shall be poets! When woman’s unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for... More
  • For a long time I ... found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved... More
  • I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some... More
  • But, truly, I have wept too much! The dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every... More
  • Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. More
  • Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge. More
  • I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. More
  • When you are seventeen you aren’t really serious. More
  • The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth. More
  • And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God!— But the great Faith is Love! More
  • Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. More
  • One evening I sat Beauty on my knees—And I found her bitter—And I reviled her. More
  • I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there. More
  • I invented the colors of the vowels!—A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green—I made rules... More
  • What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world. More
  • Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
    ... L’éternité. More

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