Arthur Rimbaud Quotes

“And from that time on I bathed in the Poem
Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk,
Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam,
A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.”

“But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.”

“I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.”

“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”

“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”

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

“In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me.”

“Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?”

“Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.”

“Love... no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”

“Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.”

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

“To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?”