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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.

Arthur Rimbaud
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Arthur Rimbaud's Popular Quotes

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

- Arthur Rimbaud

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

- Arthur Rimbaud

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

- Arthur Rimbaud

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

- Arthur Rimbaud

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

- Arthur Rimbaud

Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.

- Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

- Arthur Rimbaud

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

- Arthur Rimbaud

I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

- Arthur Rimbaud
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