Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet whose surrealist imagery and revolutionary prose poetry transformed world literature. Producing his entire poetic oeuvre between the ages of 16 and 20, works like Une Saison en Enfer and Illuminations pioneered modernism before his death on November 10, 1891.
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French Symbolist Poet, Visionary Literary Pioneer & Decadent Movement Prodigy
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Honor the extraordinary legacy of Arthur Rimbaud on November 10 with these curated quotes, philosophical reflections, and heartfelt tributes celebrating their monumental impact on French Symbolist Poet, Visionary Literary Pioneer & Decadent Movement Prodigy.
“I is another. (Je est un autre.)”
“One must be absolutely modern. (Il faut être absolument moderne.)”
“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, immense, and reasoned derangement of all the senses.”
“True life is absent. We are not in the world.”
“Only divine love bestows the keys to knowledge.”
“It has been found again. What? Eternity. It is the sea fled away with the sun.”
“One evening, I sat Beauty on my knees – and I found her bitter – and I reviled her.”
“Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.”
“I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.”
“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
French Symbolist Poet, Visionary Literary Pioneer & Decadent Movement Prodigy
