Jean-Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud citáty

„Věčnost je slunce smíšené s mořem.“

„Prolil jsem více slz, nežli by po mě Bůh kdy mohl požadovat.“

„Tisíce snů ve mně tiše hoří.“

„Rozumím, ale protože nevím, jak se vyjádřit aniž bych použil pohanských slov, raději budu mlčet.“

„Tento život je jediný! Naštěstí!“

„Věřím v peklo, jelikož se v něm nacházím!“

„Hořkou závist a hloupý obdiv nahradí člověk smírným porozuměním, prací všech pro všechny.“

„Jednou večer jsem si posadil krásu na klín. - A zdála se mi hořká.“

„Tím, že jsem příliš citlivý, jsem promarnil svůj život.“

„Jediný na čem opravdu záleží je psaní samotný. Všechno ostatní je literatura.“

„Kněží, profesoři, učitelé, mýlíte se, vydáváte-li mne do rukou spravedlnosti. Nikdy jsem nepatřil k tomuto lidu; nikdy jsem nebyl křesťan; jsem z kmene, který zpíval na mučidlech; nechápu zákony; nemám smysl pro mravnost; jsem hovado; jste na omylu.“

„Neubližuj, ale když už to uděláš, tak to udělej elegantně. Neurážej svoje oběti tím, že je ti to potom líto.“

„Čí vlídná náruč, jaká úžasná chvíle mi vrátí tuto krajinu, odkud přichází všechno mé snění i každý můj sotva slyšitelný záchvěv vzrušení?“

“I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.”

“I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.”

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”

“Love… no such thing.

Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.

Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”

“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”

“I shed more tears than God could ever have required.”

“But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.”

“Eternity is the sun
mixed
with the sea”

“I could never throw Love out of the window.”

“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”

“In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met.”

“True life is elsewhere”

“Unhappiness was my god.”

“True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.”

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.”

“I is another.”

“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star… And I dance.”

“Then you'll feel your cheek scratched…
A little kiss, like a crazy spider,
Will run round your neck…

And you'll say to me : "Find it!" bending your head
- And we'll take a long time to find that creature
- Which travels a lot…”

“One evening, I sat Beauty in my lap. — And I found her bitter. — And I cursed her.”

“Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.”

“What am I doing here?”

“Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.”

“But the problem is to make the soul into a monster”

“Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.”

“I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.”

“Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade?”

“As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.”

“The wolf howled under the leaves
And spit out the prettiest feathers
Of his meal of fowl:
Like him I consume myself.”