Quote

You will always be a hyena.

Arthur Rimbaud

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Arthur Rimbaud
Age: 37 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 20
Died: 1891
Died: November 10
Arms Trader
Explorer
Poet
World Traveler
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
Hyena
Hyenas
Always

More quotes by Arthur Rimbaud

Image
No one's serious at seventeen.
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
Je est un autre. (I is someone else).
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
Morality is the weakness of the mind.
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
I wrote silences nights I recorded the unnameable.
Arthur Rimbaud
Image
Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
Arthur Rimbaud