Arthur Rimbaud quotes

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Arthur Rimbaud

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Arthur Rimbaud

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Arthur Rimbaud

The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.

Arthur Rimbaud

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Arthur Rimbaud

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

Arthur Rimbaud

In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities.

Arthur Rimbaud

One single true word: it is, come back.
I want to be with you, I love you.
If you listen to this you will prove your courage and sincerity. Otherwise, I am sorry for you.
But I love you. I kiss you and we'll see each other again.

Arthur Rimbaud

I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.

Arthur Rimbaud

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Arthur Rimbaud

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Arthur Rimbaud

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

Arthur Rimbaud

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Arthur Rimbaud

The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it, he puts it to the test, he learns it. As soon as he has learned it, he must cultivate it! I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet be.

Arthur Rimbaud

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

Arthur Rimbaud

Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.

Arthur Rimbaud

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

Arthur Rimbaud