Arthur Rimbaud Quotes


"I'm intact, and I don't give a damn."
- Arthur Rimbaud
"Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!"
- Arthur Rimbaud
"Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge."
- Arthur Rimbaud
(Related: Love, Knowledge)

"Morality is the weakness of the brain."
- Arthur Rimbaud
(Related: Morality, Weakness)

"Life is the farce which everyone has to perform."
- Arthur Rimbaud
(Related: Life)

"I is another."
- Arthur Rimbaud
"But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter."
- Arthur Rimbaud
(Related: Moon, Sun)

"I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance."
- Arthur Rimbaud
(Related: Dance)

"I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there."
- Arthur Rimbaud
(Related: Hell)

"I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own."
- Arthur Rimbaud
(Related: Misfortune, Parents)

"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will."
- Arthur Rimbaud
(Related: Genius, Childhood, Will)

"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."
- Arthur Rimbaud
(Related: Life, Morality, Action, Force, Weakness)

"Misfortune was my god."
- Arthur Rimbaud
(Related: God, Misfortune)