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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.

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“There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them.”

Men World Different Strange Poet Broken Delightful Bondage Unfathomable Let Her Go Delightful Things

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.”

Men Sometimes Dream Stars Sea Green Milk Devouring Azure Flotsam

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?”

Men Want

Book:A Season in Hell

Source: A Season in Hell

“And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.”

Men Believe Stills I Believe Hell Alive Eternal Injury Damnation Self Injury

Book:A Season in Hell and Other Poems

Source: A Season in Hell and Other Poems

“And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!”

Men Love God Kings Great Faith

Book:Rimbaud

Source: Rimbaud

About the Author

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

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