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“I is another.”

Arthur Rimbaud

Je est un autre. <br class="br"> Letter to Georges Izambard; Charleville, 13 May 1871 http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Lettre_de_Rimbaud_%C3%A0_Georges_Izambard_-_13_mai_1871

“Then you'll feel your cheek scratched…
A little kiss, like a crazy spider,
Will run round your neck…

And you'll say to me : "Find it!" bending your head
- And we'll take a long time to find that creature
- Which travels a lot…”

Arthur Rimbaud

“One evening, I sat Beauty in my lap. — And I found her bitter. — And I cursed her.”

Arthur Rimbaud

Un soir, j&#x27;ai assis la Beauté sur mes genoux. - Et je l&#x27;ai trouvée amère. <br class="br">Et je l&#x27;ai injuriée. <br class="br"> Une Saison en Enfer http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Season.html (A Season in Hell) (1873)

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

Arthur Rimbaud

La vie est la farce à mener par tous. <br class="br"> Une Saison en Enfer http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Season.html (A Season in Hell) (1873) <br class="br">Source: Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes

“But the problem is to make the soul into a monster”

Arthur Rimbaud

“Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.”

Arthur Rimbaud

“I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.”

Arthur Rimbaud

Je parvins à faire s&#x27;évanouir dans mon esprit toute l&#x27;espérance humaine. <br class="br"> Une Saison en Enfer http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Season.html (A Season in Hell) (1873) <br class="br">Source: Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes

“The wolf howled under the leaves
And spit out the prettiest feathers
Of his meal of fowl:
Like him I consume myself.”

Arthur Rimbaud

“Morality is the weakness of the mind.”

Arthur Rimbaud

“You will always be a hyena.”

Arthur Rimbaud

“Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?”

Arthur Rimbaud

Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

“But, true, I’ve wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter.”

Arthur Rimbaud

Variant: But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

“The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.”

Arthur Rimbaud

“To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?”

Arthur Rimbaud

Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

“And from that time on I bathed in the Poem
Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk,
Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam,
A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.”

Arthur Rimbaud

Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

“It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.”

Arthur Rimbaud

Elle est retrouvée,
Quoi ?
L'Éternité.
C'est la mer allée
Avec le soleil.
L'Éternité (1872)
Variant translation:
It has been recovered.
What? — Eternity.
It is the sea escaping
With the sun.
Source: آرتور رامبو: الآثار الشعرية