Quotes by Arthur Rimbaud
Morality is the weakness of the brain.
I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
Misfortune was my god.
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
I is another.
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees - And I found her bitter - And I reviled her.
Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.
Morality is the weakness of the mind.
