Arthur Rimbaud Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Le monde n'a pas d'âge. L'humanité se déplace, simplement.(The world has no age. Humanity simply changes place.) A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

2. Love...no such thing.Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain. A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

3. Morality is the weakness of the mind.

4. O seasons, O castles,What soul is without flaws?All its lore is known to me,Felicity, it enchants us all. A Season in Hell & Other Poems

5. À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes. (In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities.) A Season in Hell & Other Poems

6. I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance. Complete Works

7. I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

8. L'aube exalteé ainsi qu'un peuple de colombes, et j'ai vu quelquefois ce que l'homme a cru voir!(And dawn, exalted like a host of doves - and then I've seen what men believe they've seen!)

9. The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire.He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has none, he gives it none. A language must be found…of the soul, for the soul and will include everything: perfumes, sounds colors, thought grappling with thought