Quote of Arthur Rimbaud - I say one must be a...
Biography - Arthur Rimbaud:
French poet.
Born: 1854 - Died: 1891
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1854 - Died: 1891
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses.
Translation
(German, French)
See also...
Quotes for: Poet
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.
Quotes for: Sense
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
Every great philosophy... as a whole says always only: this is the image of all life, and from this learn the meaning of your life.
Arthur Rimbaud also said...
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