Quotes from Arthur Rimbaud

Elle est retrouvée! Quoi? -l'Éternité. C'est la mer allée Avec le soleil.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.

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

What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!

I could never throw Love out of the window.

What am I doing here?

I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Never admit defeat!

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

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.

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.

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

Faith assuages guides restores.

He would say, 'How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away someday, far away...' And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death.

One single true word: it is, COME BACK. I want to be with you, I love you. If you listen to this you will prove your courage and sincerity. Otherwise, I am sorry for you. But I love you. I kiss you and we'll see eachother again...

There is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I'm sure she's a saint in heaven right now. You are going to kill me the way he killed that woman.That is what's in store for all of us who have unselfish hearts.