Arthur Rimbaud Quotes

Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur…

— Steven Sebring

When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.

— Patti Smith

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

— Raymond Sokolov

Amadeus Mozart is to music something like Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was to literature. They are people who created something that nobody…

— Emmanuel Macron

All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.

— Patti Smith

Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond,…

— Patti Smith

I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the…

— Patti Smith

I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when…

— Edward Hirsch

“In winter we’ll travel in a little pink carriage With cushions of blue. We’ll be fine. A nest of mad kisses waits…

— Arthur Rimbaud

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

— Paul Strathern

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

— Arthur Rimbauld