Quotes by Arthur Rimbaud

“Oh! Science! Everything has been revised. For the body and for the soul,--the viaticum,there are medicine and philosophy,old wives' remedies and popular songs rearranged. And the pastimes of prince...”

“From castles of bone unknown music comes But now, that toil rewarded; you, your calculations,you, your fits of impatienceare no more than your dancing and your voice, not fixed and certainly not fo...”

“No one's serious at seventeen,When lindens line the promenades”

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

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”

“The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses”

“Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.”

“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.”

“I shed more tears than God could ever have required.”

“Blood was flowing in Bluebeards house, in the abattoirs, in the circuses where God had set his seal to whiten the windows. Blood and Milk flowed together.”

“Faith assuages guides restores.”

“Never admit defeat!”

“À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes.”

“L'aube exalteé ainsi qu'un peuple de colombes, et j'ai vu quelquefois ce que l'homme a cru voir!(And dawn, exalted like a host of doves - and then I've seen what men believe they've seen!)”

“True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.”

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:From time to time my heart is like some oakWhose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.”

“They find me odd, and whisper behind hands…And my brutal desires sink hooks into their lips…”

“From castles of bone unknown music comes But now, that toil rewarded; you, your calculations,––you, your fits of impatience––are no more than your dancing and your voice, not fixed and certainly no...”

“I shed more tears than God could ever have required.”

“Blood was flowing – in Bluebeard’s house, in the abattoirs, in the circuses where God had set his seal to whiten the windows. Blood and Milk flowed together.”