Able Quote by 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

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

— Patti Smith

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, an outcast,…

— Patti Smith

“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

“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

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

— Emmanuel Macron

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

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Steven Sebring

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

— Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Conan Doyle had to be Sherlock Holmes in order to envision how Sherlock Holmes would unravel a mystery. He had to be in…

— Patti Smith

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

— Jose F. Lacaba