Home / Authors / Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud Quotes

Poet

Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet renowned for his surrealistic poetry style. His works have had a profound impact on subsequent poetry, considered pioneers of symbolism and surrealism.

Filter quotes by topic

All Poet Sea Heart Ifs Night Rimbaud Senses Soul Blood Found Long Love Men Sun World Dream Feels Life Is Lying Silence

Famous Arthur Rimbaud Quotes

“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.”

Feels Littles Long Running Crazy Creatures Kissing Long Time Rounds Necks Cheeks Spiders Bending

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.”

Long Sometimes Eye Lying Dark Behinds Saws Color Brother Intelligent Tongue Mood Fists Elders Dots Hypocritical Docile Closed Eyes

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“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.”

Trying Long Form Suffering Poet Madness Senses Poison Immense Forms Of Love Quintessence

Book:A Season in Hell: The Illuminations

Source: A Season in Hell: The Illuminations

“The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses”

Long Poet Senses Seers

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“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.”

About the Author

Born: October 20, 1854
Died: November 10, 1891
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 129

Books & Sources

A Season in HellRelated source material

RimbaudRelated source material

A Season in Hell and the Drunken BoatRelated source material

Illuminations, and Other Prose PoemsRelated source material

PoemsRelated source material

IlluminationsRelated source material

Une Saison en Enfer & Le Bateau IvreRelated source material

A Season in Hell & IlluminationsRelated source material

A Season in Hell and Other PoemsRelated source material

A Season in Hell: The IlluminationsRelated source material

Similar Authors

William Butler YeatsBrowse related quotes
Anne SextonBrowse related quotes
Pablo NerudaBrowse related quotes
Philip James BaileyBrowse related quotes
Khalil GibranBrowse related quotes
Alfred Lord TennysonBrowse related quotes
D. H. LawrenceBrowse related quotes
e. e. cummingsBrowse related quotes
Herman MelvilleBrowse related quotes
John KeatsBrowse related quotes