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Arthur Rimbaud Quotes

1854–1891 France

Arthur Rimbaud (20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet.

France
Poets

Also known as: Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud, Rimbaud, Rimbaud, Arthur

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The first task of any man who would be a poet is to know himself completely; he seeks his soul, inspects it, tests it, learns it... The Poet makes himself into a seer by a long, involved and logical derangement of all the senses... The poet is really a thief of fire.

It rains softly on the town.

My tavern was the Big Bear.
My stars in the sky rustled softly.

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

Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) (1873)

I! I who fashioned myself a sorcerer or an angel, who dispensed with all morality, I have come back to earth.

Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) (1873)

One must be absolutely modern.

Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) (1873)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arthur Rimbaud (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.