About Arthur Rimbaud:
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet born in Charleville, Ardennes. He influenced modern literature and arts, inspired various musicians, and prefigured surrealism. He started writing poems at a very young age, while still in primary school, and stopped completely before he turned 21. He was mostly creative in his teens (17–20). His "genius, its flowering, explosion and sudden extinction, still astonishes".
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Arthur RimbaudMy wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
Arthur RimbaudIn the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
Arthur RimbaudThe Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses
Arthur Rimbaud