Rimbaud
The Seer
I is another. Arthur was sixteen. He burned everything. Poetry. Then silence. Soles of wind.
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Era
Life and journey
Arthur was the 'enfant terrible.' invented everything at sixteen.
Their thought
The seer. derangement of all the senses. 'I is another.'
What they leave us
myth of rebellious youth. lightning language.
Major works
A Season in Hell (1873).
Illuminations (1886).
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9 quotes
“Je est un autre.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“I is another.”
— Lettre du voyant
“L'amour est à réinventer.”
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“Love is to be reinvented.”
— Une saison en enfer
“On n'est pas sérieux, quand on a dix-sept ans.”
Original quote in French
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“One is not serious at seventeen.”
— Roman
“La morale est la faiblesse de la cervelle.”
Original quote in French
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“Morality is the weakness of the brain.”
— Une saison en enfer
“Le poète se fait voyant par un long, immense et raisonné dérèglement de tous les sens.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“The poet becomes a visionary through a long, immense, and reasoned disorganization of all the senses.”
— Lettre du voyant
“Assez vu. La vision s'est rencontrée à tous les airs.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“Enough seen. The vision has encountered all the airs.”
— Illuminations
“Il faut être absolument moderne.”
Original quote in French
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“One must be absolutely modern.”
— Inconnu
“La vie est la farce à mener par tous.”
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“Life is a farce to be played by everyone.”
— Inconnu
“Par délicatesse j'ai perdu ma vie.”
Original quote in French
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“Out of delicacy, I have lost my life.”
— Inconnu
