Arthur Rimbaud

Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?

— Arthur Rimbaud

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

— Arthur Rimbaud

One single true word: it is, COME BACK. I want to be with you, I love you. If you listen to this…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“I am not a prisoner of my reason. - Bad Blood ”

— Arthur Rimbaud

...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

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

— Arthur Rimbaud

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

— Arthur Rimbaud

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

— Arthur Rimbaud

“The wolf howled under the leaves As he spat out the bright feathers Of his feast of fowl: Like him, I devour…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“Magical flowers were humming. The turf slopes cradled *him.* Beasts of a fabulous elegance were circulating. Storm clouds were piling up on…

— Arthur Rimbaud

Hay que ser absolutamente Moderno

— Arthur Rimbaud

“Il n'y a personne ici et il y a qeulqu'un: je ne voudrais pas répandre mon trésor.”

— Arthur Rimbaud

“Estendi cordas de campanário a campanário; guirlandas de janela a janela; correntes de ouro de estrela a estrela, e danço.”

— Arthur Rimbaud

There is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I'm sure she's a saint in heaven right…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“I am unknown; what does it matter? Poets are brothers. These lines believe; they love; they hope; and that is all. Dear…

— Arthur Rimbaud

I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals,…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“The hallucinations are innumerable. That's what has always been the matter with me, in fact: no belief in history, obliviousness of principles.…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”

— Arthur Rimbaud

“I saw myself before an infuriated mob, facing the firing squad, weeping out of pity for the evil they could not understand,…

— Arthur Rimbaud

I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.

— Arthur Rimbaud

“I came a fabulous opera. I saw that all beings have a fatality for happiness: action is not life, but a way…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“Yes, my eyes are closed to your light. I am an animal, a nigger. But I can be saved. You are fake…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“Along the open road on winter nights, homeless, cold, and hungry, one voice gripped my frozen heart: 'Weakness or strength: you exist,…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“Blood was flowing – in Bluebeard’s house, in the abattoirs, in the circuses where God had set his seal to whiten the…

— Arthur Rimbaud

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

— Arthur Rimbaud