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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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“I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.”

Made Form Poetry Language Black White Movement Color Poet Red Blue Green Senses Rhythm Poetic Flattered Vowels Consonants

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

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

Lying Memories Creative Senses Impulse Formulas Nourishment Alchemy

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

“I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It's really not my fault.”

Want I Can Ideas Suffering Strong Born Poet Faults Senses Enormous Incapable Explaining Seers

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

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

Long Poet Senses Seers

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.”

Memories Creativity Senses Our Memories Nourishment

Book:A Season in Hell & Illuminations

Source: A Season in Hell & Illuminations

About the Author

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

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