Arthur Rimbaud

“A thousand dreams within me softly burn.”

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”

“I finally managed to make my mind's disorder sacred.”

“The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.”

“What a life! The real life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.”

“To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast must I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lie must I maintain? In what blood tread?”

“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.”

“The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

“True life is absent.”

“Love has to be reinvented.”

“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; through sensitivity I have wasted my life.”

“I understood, and I did not know how to express myself without pagan words.”

“I am the master of my own phantoms.”

“Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.”

“My turn now. The story of one of my insanities.”

“I believe in all spells, all loves, all of me.”

“I is another.”

“Eternity. It is the sea fled with the sun.”