Best Quotes by Arthur Rimbaud (Top 10)
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: âYour memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has none, he gives it none. A language must be found…of the soul, for the soul and will include everything: perfumes, sounds colors, thought grappling with thought
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More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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On the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths, And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat: Daydreaming I will feel the coolness on my feet. I will let the wind bathe my bare head. I will not speak, I will have no thoughts: But infinite love will mount in my soul; And I will go far, far off, like a gypsy, through the countryside - as happy as if I were a woman. "Sensation
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I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It's really not my fault.
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I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea
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He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death.
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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!
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
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Misfortune was my god.
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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.
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There is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I'm sure she's a saint in heaven right now. You are going to kill me the way he killed that woman.That is what's in store for all of us who have unselfish hearts.
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