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Arthur Rimbaud Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the french poet Arthur Rimbaud on topics like life, love, world

  • When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

    — Arthur Rimbaud on youth
    5
  • I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

    — Arthur Rimbaud on hell
    4
  • One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

    — Arthur Rimbaud on beauty
    3
  • 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.

    — Arthur Rimbaud on expectation
    2
  • But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking.

    Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

    — Arthur Rimbaud on sadness
    2
  • The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.

    — Arthur Rimbaud on sunshine
    2
  • And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

    — Arthur Rimbaud on god
    1
  • I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

    — Arthur Rimbaud on parenting
    1
  • I is another.

    — Arthur Rimbaud on identity
    1
  • Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

    — Arthur Rimbaud on life
    1
  • What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

    — Arthur Rimbaud on life
    1
  • I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent

    — Arthur Rimbaud on understand
    0
  • About Arthur Rimbaud

    Name Arthur Rimbaud
    Quotes 16 quotations
    Nationality French
    Profession Poet
    Birthday October 16
    About French poet and adventurer, who stopped writing verse at the age of 21, and became after his early death an inextricable myth in French gay life. d's poetry, partially written in free verse, is characterized by dramatic and imaginative vision. "I say that one must be a visionary - that one must make oneself a VISIONARY." His works are among the most original in the Symbolist movement.
    Top topics life, love, world, found, words
  • Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

    — Arthur Rimbaud on youth
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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.

    — Arthur Rimbaud on style
    0
  • I turned silences and nights into words.

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

    — Arthur Rimbaud on poetry
    0
  • Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

    — Arthur Rimbaud on knowledge
    0
  • Related Topics

    • youth
    • seventeen
    • hell
    • beauty
    • evening
    • sat
    • knees
    • found
    • bitter
    • reviled
    • expectation
    • beings
    • fated
    • happiness
    • action
    • life
    • wasting
    • force
    • enervation
    • morality
    • weakness
    • brain
    • sadness
    • wept
    • dawns
    • heartbreaking
    • moon
    • atrocious
    • sun
    • sunshine
    • hearth
    • affection
    • pours
    • burning
    • love

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