Arthur Rimbaud: Citations en anglais

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

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

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Eternity is the sun
mixed
with the sea”

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

“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.”

“True life is elsewhere”

“Unhappiness was my god.”

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

“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.”

“I is another.”

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

“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…”