Arthur Rimbaud: Trending quotes

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

“I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.”

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.”

“Unhappiness was my god.”

“Eternity is the sun
mixed
with the sea”

“I shed more tears than God could ever have required.”

“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”

“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”

“But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.”

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

“In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met.”

“I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.”

“What am I doing here?”

“Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.”

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

“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.”

“True life is elsewhere”