Quotes by Arthur Rimbaud

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

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

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

“Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.”

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

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

“Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.”

“One evening I sat Beauty on my knees /And I found her bitter /And I reviled her.”

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

“I is another.”

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

“Im intact, and I dont give a damn.”

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”

“For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.”

“Misfortune was my god”

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

“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 well see eachother again...”

“Morality is the weakness of the brain.”

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

“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.”