Arthur Rimbaud: Quotes about love

Arthur Rimbaud was French Decadent and Symbolist poet. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Arthur Rimbaud: 132 quotes56 likes

“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.”

Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

“I could never throw Love out of the window.”

“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.”

“Love is to be reinvented, that is clear.”

L'amour est à réinventer, on le sait. <br class="br"> Une Saison en Enfer http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Season.html (A Season in Hell) (1873)