Arthur Rimbaud
French poet
Date of Birth | : | 20 Oct, 1854 |
Date of Death | : | 10 Nov, 1891 |
Place of Birth | : | Charleville-Mézières, France |
Profession | : | French Poet, Writer |
Nationality | : | France |
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism. Born in Charleville, he started writing at a very young age and excelled as a student, but abandoned his formal education in his teenage years to run away to Paris amidst the Franco-Prussian War. During his late adolescence and early adulthood, he produced the bulk of his literary output. Rimbaud completely stopped writing literature at age 20 after assembling his last major work.
Quotes
Total 20 Quotes
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me.
Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
I is another.
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.)
Je est un autre.
I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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.