Arthur Rimbaud quotes

Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet whose innovative and rebellious works influenced modern literature and art. His early poetry, often characterized by vivid imagery and symbolism, broke traditional forms and conventions. He became a legendary figure for his intense creativity and his decision to abandon writing at a young age. Here are 73 of his quotes:

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

Arthur Rimbaud

But, true, I've wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter.

Arthur Rimbaud

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

Arthur Rimbaud

Love... no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that's certain.

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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.

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One evening, I sat Beauty in my lap. - And I found her bitter. - And I cursed her.

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Once, I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.

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Love is to be reinvented, that is clear.

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One must be absolutely modern.

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I is an other.

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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.

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But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.

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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.

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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

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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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