Quotes By Author: Arthur Rimbaud

“I am unknown: so what?This verses believe; they love; they hope: that’s enough.”

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

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

“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.)”

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

“O seasons, O castles,What soul is without flaws?All its lore is known to me,Felicity, it enchants us all.”

“Love…no such thing.Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that’s not love. That’s stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn’t exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”

“Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.”