Arthur Rimbaud

Poet French 1854 – 1891

French poet known for A Season in Hell and visionary works.

385 quotes

"Time devours its own children while pretending to offer them immortality."
Time
"The soul requires starvation to grow."
Perseverance
"Distance makes saints of ordinary people."
Inspiration
"I have invented nothing; I have merely remembered what was always true."
Knowledge
"Love is the only word that cannot be spoken without lying."
Relationships
"The world rewards those who can bear its indifference."
Strength
"Every death is a small apocalypse, every birth a resurrection."
Death
"Patience is the luxury only the desperate can afford."
Patience
"I have seen the future and it is already fading into the past."
History
"Kindness in a cruel world is the ultimate rebellion."
Kindness
"Power lies not in what you possess but in what you can release."
Power
"Money is the poetry of the practical man."
Money
"Adventure begins where comfort ends."
Adventure
"The mind creates prisons from which the body can never escape."
Faith
"Leadership is knowing which way the crowd is going and walking slightly ahead."
Leadership
"Work without vision is merely slavery with a wage."
Work
"Dreams are the rehearsals for the lives we never live."
Dreams
"Humor is the armor of those too proud to cry."
Humor
"Beauty exists not in things but in the space between them."
Beauty
"We are all dying from the day we are born; the question is how we fill the interval."
"Perseverance is love in its most muscular form."
Perseverance
"Gratitude is the highest form of intelligence."
Gratitude
"Creation requires the courage to destroy."
Creativity
"Justice is the dream of the powerless."
Justice
"Impatience is the mark of a soul too large for its circumstances."
Patience
"The strong preserve their strength in silence."
Strength
"Fear is the price we pay for being alive."
Fear
"Real power is saying no to what the world demands."
Power
"Money creates distance between people by pretending to create connection."
Money
"Health is a burden for those who have never truly suffered."
Health