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For a long time I ... found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks’ backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers’ novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms. - Arthur Rimbaud
Attribution: Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French poet. “Délires II: Alchimie du Verbe,” Une Saison en Enfer (1874).

Categories: Taste

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