Arthur Rimbaud Quotes

Never admit defeat!

Faith assuages guides restores.

I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

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

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

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

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

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 not forced, although an added reason for a double consequence of inventiveness + success, ––in brotherly and discreet humanity throughout the universe devoid of images;––force and justice reflect thedancing and the voices which are only now esteemed. The voices of instruction in exile... The body’s ingenuousness bit- terly put in its place... –– Adagio –– Ah! the infinite egotism of adolescence, the studious optimism: how full of flowers the world was that summer! Tunes and forms fading... ––A choir, to calm down impotence and absence! A choir of glass pieces, of nocturnal melodies... Soon, indeed, the nerves will slip their moorings.