Arthur Rimbaud Quotes - Page 2

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• Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Time, Youth, Sensitive

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Country, Beach, Sleep

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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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  Long, Suffering, Trying

  Arthur Rimbaud (1974). “A Season in Hell: The Illuminations”, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• 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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  Couple, Attachment, Self

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• Yet this is the watch by night.
  Let us all accept new strength, and
  real tenderness. And at dawn, armed
  with glowing patience, we will enter
  the cities of glory.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Real, Night, Glowing

  Arthur Rimbaud (2017). “A Season in Hell”, p.53, BookRix

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• The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Love, Heart, Burning

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Life, World, Elsewhere

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Nothingness

  Arthur Rimbaud (1957). “Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems”, p.29, New Directions Publishing

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• I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Tears, Shed

  Arthur Rimbaud (1957). “Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems”, p.155, New Directions Publishing

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• I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races and continents; I used to believe in every kind of magic. I began it as an investigation. I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Religious, War, Believe

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• The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Kissing, Light, Sea

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• Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Farce, Life Is, Endure

  "A Season in Hell". Book by Arthur Rimbaud, 1873.

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• You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Kissing, Tiny, Lips

  Arthur Rimbaud (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.51, Oxford University Press

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• What am I doing here?

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Travel, Journey, Inspiring Travel

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• Eternity is the sun
  mixed
  with the sea

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Sea, Sun, Eternity

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• Morality is the weakness of the mind.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Mind, Weakness, Morality

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• I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  May, Devotion, Dies

  Arthur Rimbaud (2013). “A Season in Hell & Illuminations”, Modern Library

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• It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Thinking, Chaos, Ought

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• ...You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of that! Damn it! And besides that they smack you for a reward; they call you an animal and it's not true, a little kid, etc.. Oh! Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn!

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Jobs, Kids, Animal

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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.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Disappointment, Heart, Eye

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• I could never throw Love out of the window.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Window

  Arthur Rimbaud (1957). “Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to me : "Find it !" bending your head - And we'll take a long time to find that creature - Which travels a lot.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Running, Crazy, Kissing

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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.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Inspirational, Dance, Stars

  Arthur Rimbaud (1957). “Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Chaos, Amazement, Nothingness

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• It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Night, Silence, Research

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