Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud; 20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet who is known for his influence on modern literature and arts, which prefigured surrealism. Born in Charleville-Mézières, he started writing at a very young age and was a prodigious student, but abandoned his formal education in his teenage years to run away from home amidst the Franco-Prussian War. After running away, during his late adolescence and early adulthood, he began the bulk of his literary...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 October 1854
CountryFrance
Unhappiness was my god.
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.
And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures
I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
I could never throw Love out of the window.
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
True life is elsewhere
It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life ...