Thursday, January 20, 2011

Arthur Rimbaud

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

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
Arthur Rimbaud

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

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

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

I is another.
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

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

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

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
Arthur Rimbaud

Misfortune was my god.
Arthur Rimbaud

Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur Rimbaud

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


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