Rimbaud Quotes

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

— Arthur Rimbaud

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

— Arthur Rimbaud

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

— Chinua Achebe

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

— Bruce Chatwin

The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“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

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

— Raymond Sokolov

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Iggy Pop

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

— Assia Djebar

“At nineteen Rimbaud reminded us To despair: there was nothing more to do, Hell was closed for all seasons, And for all…

— Jose F. Lacaba

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

— Patti Smith

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

— Eric Cantona

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

— Graham Robb

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

— Tom McDonough

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

— Paul Strathern

“He will never be satisfied,” writes one biographer...I know because I suffer from the same disease...I don't believe for a minute that…

— Henry Miller

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

— Arthur Rimbauld

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

— Bruce Chatwin