At nineteen Rimbaud reminded us To despair: there was…

“My life has been a disaster on the grand scale - that I'd better make clear from the start. A catalogue of my former…

— Paul Strathern

“It has been found again. What? – Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.”

— Arthur Rimbaud

“I feel like Rimbaud, that I walked out of my madness, and away from my demon. I admitted to needing to be by mysef…

— Virginia Woolf

“My health was menaced. Terror came. For days on end I fell asleep and, when I woke, the dark dreams continued. I was ripe…

— Bruce Chatwin

“They find me odd, and whisper behind hands…And my brutal desires sink hooks into their lips…”

— Arthur Rimbaud

“Since they weren't sleepy and nothing had been left unsaid, they began to read poetry to each other, taking turns like children and enjoying…

— Assia Djebar

An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the…

— Eric Cantona

At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and…

— Iggy Pop

“J'ai tendu des cordes de clocher a clocher--des guirlandes de fenetre a fenetre--des chaines d'or d'etoile a etoile, et je danse.” ~ Rimbaud”

— Bill Arnold

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

— Chinua Achebe

“What am I doing here? Rimbaud writing home from Ethiopia”

— Bruce Chatwin

“If the mystery can be reduced to one solution, it lies in a simple coincidence: Rimbaud's interest in his own work had survived the…

— Graham Robb

“We must change life,' the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern world through…

— Tom McDonough

“The poet makes himself a seer through a long, tremendous, planned detachment of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbauld

Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.

— Raymond Sokolov