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Biography - Arthur Rimbaud:

French poet.
Born: 1854 - Died: 1891
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
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

Translation

(German, French)



German
Je dis qu'il faut être voyant, se faire voyant. Le Poète se fait voyant par un long, immense et raisonné dérèglement de tous les sens.

French
Je dis qu'il faut être voyant, se faire voyant. Le Poète se fait voyant par un long, immense et raisonné dérèglement de tous les sens.




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Quotes for: Poet


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Quotes for: Poet


... but we want to be the poets of our life—first of all in the smallest, most everyday matters.





To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.





Always be a poet, even in prose.





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.





The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.











Quotes

Quotes for: Sense


All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.





Love is the poetry of the senses.





Formation, transformation, The eternal mind's eternal recreation.





Your own senses you shall think to the end!





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.





Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.











Quotes

Arthur Rimbaud also said...


It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.






I is another.





Today I know how to salute beauty.





I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.





Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.





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.












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