Arthur Rimbaud Quotes

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

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.

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking.

Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

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

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

I is another.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

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

I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent

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

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.

I turned silences and nights into words.

What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.