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Arthur Rimbaud Quotes: 7

  • Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

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

    A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
  • True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

    Illuminations
  • Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

    Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes
  • À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes. (In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities.)

    Season in Hell & Other Poems
  • But the problem is to make the soul into a monster

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

    Complete Works