Top 100 Arthur Rimbaud Quotes

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

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#2. And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!

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#3. Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

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#4. Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.

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#5. Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don't know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.

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#6. What am I doing here?

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#7. Yet this is the watch by night.
Let us all accept new strength, and
real tenderness. And at dawn, armed
with glowing patience, we will enter
the cities of glory.

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#8. I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.

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#9. I came a fabulous opera. I saw that all beings have a fatality for happiness: action is not life, but a way of spending your strength, an irritation. Morality is a weakness of the brain.

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

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#11. You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of that! Damn it! And besides that they smack you for a reward; they call you an animal and it's not true, a little kid, etc.. Oh! Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn!

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#12. These verses believe; they love; they hope; that is all.

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#13. The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea

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#14. I could never throw Love out of the window.

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#15. But today I would suggest you ponder these verses from Ecclesiastes: "And he would have seven flights of madness in his soul, who, having hung his clothes beneath the sun, would groan at the hour of rain,

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#16. 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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#17. Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

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

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#19. It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.

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#20. 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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#21. Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.

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#22. From castles of bone unknown music comes

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#23. Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry,
Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

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#24. I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I'd rather remain silent

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#25. 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.

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#26. I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

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#27. When we are strongest- who draws back?
Most merry- who falls down laughing?
When we are very bad,- what can they do to us?

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

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#29. I am hidden and I am not.

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

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#31. turn your face towards the lances of rain, the soul towards ancient wisdom. And

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#32. The same bourgeois magic everywhere the mail train sets you down.

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#33. I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.

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#34. Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?

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#35. The wolf howled under the leaves
And spit out the prettiest feathers
Of his meal of fowl:
Like him I consume myself.

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#36. Then you'll feel your cheek scratched ...
A little kiss, like a crazy spider,
Will run round your neck ...
And you'll say to me : "Find it !" bending your head
- And we'll take a long time to find that creature
- Which travels a lot ...

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#37. True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'.

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#38. Eternity is the sun
mixed
with the sea

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#39. Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?

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

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#41. Morality is the weakness of the mind.

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

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#43. I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance.

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#44. The white men are landing. Cannons! Now we must be baptized, get dressed, and go to work. My heart has been stabbed by grace. Ah! I hadn't thought this would happen!

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#45. The world progresses! Why shouldn't it turn as well?

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#46. The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.

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#47. It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.

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#48. Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.

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#49. I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.

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#50. True life is elsewhere

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#51. Misfortune was my god.

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

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#53. Madame X set up a piano in the Alps.

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#54. Is it possible to become ecstatic amid destruction, rejuvenate oneself through cruelty?

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#55. My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

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#56. Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

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#57. I will never possess my hand.

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#58. But to explore the invisible and to hear the unheard are very different from reviving the dead: Baudelaire is therefore first among seers, the king of poets, a true God.

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#59. I have stretched ropes from bell-tower to bell-tower; garlands from window to window; chains of gold from star to star, and I dance.

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#60. The hallucinations are innumerable. That's what has always been the matter with me, in fact: no belief in history, obliviousness of principles. I shall say no more about this: poets and visionaries would be jealous. I am a thousand times the richest, let's be as miserly as the sea.

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#61. But, true, I've wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter.

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#62. Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

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#63. Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.

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#64. Satan, you clown, you want to dissolve me with your charms. Well, I want it. I want it! Stab me with a pitchfork, sprinkle me with fire!

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#65. Priests, professors, masters, you are wrong to turn me over to Justice. I have never belonged to this people. I have never been Christian. I am of the race that sang under torture. I do not understand your laws. I have no moral sense, I am a brute.

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#66. While public funds evaporate in feasts of fraternity, a bell of rosy fire rings in the clouds.

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#67. This lofty thought proves I dreamt it!

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#68. Yes, my eyes are closed to your light. I am an animal, a nigger. But I can be saved. You are fake niggers; maniacs, savages, misers, all of you.

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#69. The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses

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#70. 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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#71. A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?

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#72. Unhappiness was my god.

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#73. O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.

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#74. As for me, I am intact; and I don't care.

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

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#76. The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

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#77. Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of us - in ecstasy!

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#78. I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

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#79. It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.

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#80. What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?

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#81. But the problem is to make the soul into a monster

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#82. You will always be a hyena.

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#83. By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

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#84. As of today, I rebel against death! Work seems frivolous; I'm a proud man, and a lifetime's work would be too brief an agony for me. At the last moment, I'd attack ... to the right ... to the left ... And then - oh! - sweet old soul of mine, eternity would not have been wasted on us!

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#85. Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

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#86. I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.

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#87. Hire myself out to whom? What beast must I worship? What sacred images should I destroy? What hearts shall I break? What lies am I supposed to believe? March through whose blood?

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#88. 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?

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

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#90. It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

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#91. No one's serious at seventeen,
When lindens line the promenades

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

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#93. I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.

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

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#95. You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life ...

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#96. O great Ariadne who pour out your tears
On the shore, as you see, out there on the waves,
The sail of Theseus flying white under the sun,
O sweet virgin child whom a night has broken,
Be silent!
-Sun and Flesh (Credo in Unam)

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

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#98. True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

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#99. Cement in bold relief, - far underground. I lean my elbows on the table, and the lamp lights brightly the newspapers I am fool enough to re-read, and the absurd books.

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#100. I saw that all living things were doomed, to bliss: that's not living; it's just a way to waste what we have, a drain.

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