“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

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French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854–1891

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