Arthur Rimbaud Quotes

I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.

J'ai tendu des cordes de clocher a clocher; des guirlandes de fenetre a fenetre; des chaines d'or d'etoile a etoile, et je danse.

Mais, vrai, j’ai trop pleuré ! Les Aubes sont navrantes.
Toute lune est atroce et tout soliel amer:
L’âcre amour m’a gonflé de torpeurs enivrantes.
Ô que ma quille éclate ! Ô que j’aille à la mer!

Plus léger qu'un bouchon j'ai dansé sur les flots.

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.

Il faut être absolument moderne.

I! I who fashioned myself a sorcerer or an angel, who dispensed with all morality, I have come back to earth.

لكم الهلاكُ! أيتها القوة، أيتها العدالة، ويا أيها التاريخ، ألا اسقطوا !

سعارُ اليأس يدفع بي في وجه كل شيء: الطبيعة، الأشياء، أنا نفسي، هذا كله الذي أريد أنا تمزيقه

Ciel ! Amour ! Liberté ! Quel rêve, ô pauvre Folle!
Tu te fondais à lui comme une neige au feu

I believe I am in Hell, and so I am there.

Priests, professors, masters, you are wrong to turn me over to Justice. I have never belonged to this people. I have never been Christian. I am of the race that sang under torture. I do not understand your laws. I have no moral sense, I am a brute.

I am unknown: so what?
This verses believe; they love; they hope: that's enough.

جميع المهن تُفزعني. السادة والعمال جميعاً فلّاحون بلا نبالة

Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?