Arthur Rimbaud quotes

View Quote I accept chaos. I don't know whether it accepts me.

View Quote You know, it's nature's will. And I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all.

View Quote Seven simple rules for life in hiding: 1. Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2. Beware of enthusiasm and of love, each is temporary and quick to sway. 3. If asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks; he will not ask you again. 4. and 5. Never give your real name and if ever told to look at yourself, never look. 6. Never say or do anything the person standing in front of you cannot understand, and 7. Never create anything. It will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life and it will never change.

View Quote Woody Guthrie was dead, Little Richard was becoming a preacher, so whether you're a folksinger or a Christian, rock 'n' roll was the devil. Me? I was in a ditch, up a cliff, out of step, ready to quit. I wrote the kind of stuff you write when you have no place to live and you're wrapped up in the fire pump. I nearly killed myself with pity and despair. And then I wrote it. It was like swimming in lava. Skipping, kicking, catching a nail with your foot. Seeing your victim hanging from a tree.

View Quote You don't have to write anything down to be a poet. Some work in gas stations. Some shine shoes. I don't really call myself one because I don't like the word. Me? I'm a trapeze artist. Sighting it and hearing it and breathing it in; rubbing it all in the pores of my skin. And the wind between my eyes, milk and honey in my comb.

View Quote I know I have a sickness festering somewhere. I don't mean like Woody Guthrie, wasting away in some hospital. I couldn't do that, decay like that. That's nature's will, and I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. The only truly natural things are dreams, which nature cannot touch with decay.