Arthur Rimbaud

Poet French 1854 – 1891

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

385 quotes

"Power multiplies when shared and dies when hoarded."
Power
"Money is frozen time, and we spend it without knowing its true cost."
Money
"Health is the silence of the body learning to listen to itself."
Health
"Adventure is what happens when we stop asking for permission."
Adventure
"Imagination is the last frontier no tyrant can conquer."
Imagination
"Technology promises to bridge distances it has already created."
Technology
"History repeats itself because we are too afraid to look at what it shows us."
History
"Philosophy is arguing about shadows on a wall we've never left."
Philosophy
"Literature is the space where strangers become familiar."
Literature
"Politics is the art of making incompatible desires seem compatible."
Politics
"War is what happens when we run out of words."
War
"Motivation is the echo of a promise we made to ourselves."
Motivation
"Inspiration comes to those humble enough to recognize it."
Inspiration
"Relationships are mirrors showing us what we refuse to see."
Relationships
"Solitude is the only place where the true self can emerge."
Solitude
"Nature is the teacher who speaks only to those who listen."
Nature
"I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer."
Creativity
"The poet makes himself a seer by a long, deliberate derangement of all the senses."
Art
"Real life is absent. We are not in the world."
Philosophy
"Childhood is the key to all that follows."
Life
"One must be absolutely modern."
Change
"I have embraced the summer dawn."
Nature
"The only proof of the existence of God is the existence of the inexplicable."
Faith
"I love the beautiful autumn and I love the winter when it brings snow and solitude."
Solitude
"In the end, you will not remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn."
Life
"A season in hell is what we all must endure."
Perseverance
"The true alchemists are those who transform the world through their words."
Literature
"My sad heart weeps at the beach of all the world."
"I is another—I am someone else."
"Love must be reinvented, or it ceases to exist."
Love