Arthur Rimbaud — a remark

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“The first study of the man who wants to be a poet is his own complete knowledge of himself.”

Original: La première étude de l’homme qui veut être poète est sa propre connaissance, entière. — Rimbaud links poetic ambition with an uncompromising investigation of the self. · Letter to Paul Demeny, 15 May 1871 (French)

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Arthur Rimbaud

20 October 1854–10 November 1891

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was born on 20 October 1854 in Charleville, in the Ardennes region of northeastern France, and died on 10 November 1891 in Marseille. Few writers have produced so small a body of work and so immense a legend. Rimbaud wrote nearly all the poetry for which he is remembered between his…

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