Arthur Rimbaud Quotes - Page 4

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• ...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry, let them run, love and sing: they are as rich as Jacques Coeur, all these silly children, for they have their souls full of rhymes, rhymes which laugh and cry, which make us laugh or cry: Let them live: God blesses all the merciful: and the world blesses the poets.

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  Running, Children, Silly

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• What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!

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  Maids, Lacking, Old Maids

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• O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.

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  Fear, Hate, Blood

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• I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.

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  Soul, Found, Humans

  "A Season in Hell". Book by Arthur Rimbaud, 1873.

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

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  Giving, Damn, Don't Give A Damn

  Arthur Rimbaud (1976). “A Season in Hell”, Pomegranate Press (MA)

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• -But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.

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  Mind

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• . . . be absolute moderne.

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  Absolutes

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

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  Parent, Baptism, Slave

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures

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  Stars, Sea, Green

  Arthur Rimbaud, “The Drunken Boat”

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

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  Judging, Critics, Judged

  Arthur Rimbaud (1957). “Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems”, p.29, New Directions Publishing

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• I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.

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  Blue, Color, White

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• All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.

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  Brother, Lying, Eye

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• Unhappiness was my god.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Unhappiness

  Arthur Rimbaud, Stanley Appelbaum (2003). “A Season in Hell and Other Works”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.

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  Children, Mourning, Dresses

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• As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.

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  Rivers, Felt

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• Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.

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  Strong, Fire, Light

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