Arthur Rimbaud
» Adolescence » “When you are seventeen you aren’t really serious.”
» Beauty » “One evening I sat Beauty on my knees –And I found her bitter –And I reviled her.”
» Disillusion » “I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.”
» God » “And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! — But the great Faith is Love!”
» Hell » “I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.”
» Identity » “I is another.”
» Knowledge » “Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.”
» Life and Living » “Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.”
» Life and Living » “What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.”
» Parents and Parenting » “I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.”
» Sorrow » “But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.”
» Sun » “The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.”
» Taste » “For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.”
» Youth » “Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
